The world leaders, who will gather in Toronto on June 25, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will have total 'sit-down' time of 24 hours in three days.The Toronto Star has done the math: The two summits of world leaders would cost $50-million an hour which works out to $ 833,000 a minute.
As the three-day Commonwealth Summit of 53 nations is in progress at Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, Canada has come out publicly that they are opposed to the next 2011 Commonwealth summit taking place in Sri Lanka.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official visit to Canada will last barely half a day. The G20 summit will end by 2.00 pm on June 27, after which Singh's State visit to Canada will commence.
