Just over a fortnight ago, Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney gave a much-praised speech in Davos at the World Economic Forum. He essentially asked what should mid-sized powers, like Canada, do when America turns its back on the multilateral international framework which it had built after World War II?
Carney, with President Donald Trump clearly in mind, described “a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics, where the large, main power, geopolitics, is submitted to no limits, no constraints.” He added that “You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
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