So the flavour of the evening was hopeful with a touch of sugar by Maude Barlow herself finishing with.. “what else should we do with our time if we aren’t going to spend it saving the world”

There was certainly a lot to say about the millions of dollars spent on security and how a comparable amount would run the entire United Nations for one full year. Not to mention the United Nations being the evident appropriate body to lead the discussions that are going on behind the barricades of the G20 summit. The UN, of course, representing the 192 nation states (not only 20) is clearly much more transparent, representative and capable of high level negotiations and this G20 boys club is simply an expensive “drinking binge” that weights heavy on the back of tax payers.

Economic solutions such as a 100 million dollar cap for any corporate environmental mistake or  the idea that it makes economic sense to send waste to the third world are the kind of sad realities that build and brake our global economic state. We all wonder if that will lead the discussions at the G20 summit, knowing very well it is the leading power of conversation here at the Canadian Council G20 summit for civil society.

Lets always continue to advocate for a Civil Society Summit; opening up the G20 doors to the 6.9 billion people around the world, the 300 million species in all their multitudes and celebrate earth democracy; at least representationally through the UN.