Not as a state, but as a continuing ally and partner

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

Without specifically mentioning any single nation during his World Economic Forum speech, Prime Minister Mark Carney was clearly setting the political stage for Canada to move away from the United States as a trusted economic and political ally.

Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.

Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.

Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.

Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.

Unlike U.S. President Donald Trump, who willingly and enthusiastically ridicules and puts down most of the world’s nations as basket cases led by numskulls and idiots — or as good guys he’s keen to work with (i.e. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping) — Carney prefers to paint the world in broad ideological and philosophical brushstrokes.

Carney has been doing this for years in speeches and in Value(s): Building a Better World for All, his 2021 book that projected environmental collapse if the world economic system were not purged of market fundamentalism, globalization and the role of individual freedom as the main determinants of value and values. Carney claimed in his book that the “rules-based architecture that Canada has long cherished is under strain.” The world economy needed to be reformed into stakeholder capitalism and the pursuit of sustainable development in the name of controlling the greatest crisis, “the tragedy of the........

© Financial Post