OTTAWA — Canada disagrees with U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Russia rejoin the G7 — but Moscow says the idea is a non-starter anyway. “Russia has no interest in revisiting past formats,” Moscow’s Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov wrote on social media.

Russia should rejoin the Group of 7, an economic and political forum of advanced democracies that it was suspended from following its 2014 invasion of Ukraine, President Donald Trump said Thursday. "I'd love to have them back.

There is no possibility that Canada will allow Russia to be present at the meeting of the most developed democratic countries in the world, the G7 group, scheduled for June, informed Canada's Foreign Minister,