For all of its great prime ministers, Canada has never had one who was known for their ability to deliver stirring speeches, much less ones with global import and impact. In a remarkable 16-minute-long speech delivered in front of the world’s most powerful political and business leaders in Davos, Mark Carney just changed that. It will almost certainly go down as the most important speech in Canadian history up to this point — one that shapes and defines our future in ways few national leaders have ever done. 

"The old order is not coming back,” he said. “We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger and more just." Carney began by acknowledging that the Trump administration — never named, but always in mind — is guided by the wisdom of Athenian historian and general Thucydides, whose realpolitik view of the world held that “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” Carney clearly rejects this sort of worldview, as a dedicated internationalist and........

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