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About this episode

he 2010 G-20 Toronto summit is the fourth meeting of the G-20 heads of government, in discussion of the global financial system and the world economy, which took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during June 26–27, 2010. The summit was initially proposed to be held in the town of Huntsville, Ontario, where the immediately preceding 36th G8 summit was hosted by Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The town was later deemed insufficient to provide hospitality for the large number of G-20 delegates and journalists and the G-20 summit was thus later finalized to take place in Toronto. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As security was further tightened and forces increased in presence the following day, protests against police brutality occurred in front of the Eastern Avenue temporary detention centre, where nearly 500 arrested individuals were kept from the previous day's riots. However, despite media coverage informing the public that officers had the power to demand identification and to detain people within five metres of the site, it was later found that no such law existed. However, the police made mention of the law that did not exist to do questionable acts violating civil rights of free speech and protest.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The security cost for the two summits was more expensive than the combined security costs of the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, which were $878 million. During the summit, French president Nicolas Sarkozy claimed that the costs for hosting the proposed G8 and G-20 summits in France in 2011 would be one-tenth of Canada's. ^ "Sarkozy says his G8/G20 will cost one-tenth of Canada’s". Globe and Mail (Canada). June 27, 2010. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/sarkozy-says-his-g8g20-will-cost-one-tenth-of-canadas/article1619637/. Retrieved 2010-09-28.

• Release Date

  Oct 27, 2010

• Runtime

  05:21