Carney may be right about the 'new world order,' but failed to articulate a coherent foreign policy

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Prime Minister Mark Carney took to the podium at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday to deliver one simple message: the world as you know it is over. But it’s not even clear that Carney knows what he thinks should take its place, or whose side he’s on.

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The Prime Minister’s Office billed the trip as a means of deepening Canada’s “economic partnerships,” creating “new opportunities” and pitching our country as the “premier destination for global capital and investment.” But those talking points comprised just five per cent of his speech.

What he really wanted to convince his chums in Davos of was not to invest in our country, but to join him in building coalitions so that middle powers like Canada can assert themselves in a multi-polar world and avoid being trampled upon by great powers like the United States and China (though Carney chose not to call either out by name).

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According to Carney, we have essentially been living in the matrix for some time, pretending as though the “rules-based international order” was actually based on a firm set of rules that are equally applied. Thankfully, our brave leader chose the red........

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