Trudeau and other G7 leaders gather to plot a path back to 'normal'

It wasn’t until the jet was in the air that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip to the U.K. for the G7 summit — his first foreign trip since the onset of the pandemic — felt truly weird.

For the journalists gathered at the Uplands airfield outside Ottawa early this morning to board the PM’s transatlantic flight, it wasn’t all unfamiliar. The mandatory masks, temperature checks, health questions, physical distancing and ubiquitous hand sanitizing stations at the air force base hangar are all part of daily life now — routine, grudgingly accepted. Even the sight of flight crew members with face shields didn’t seem out of place.

But what strikes anyone