Mark Carney says Canada must ‘be a beacon to a world that’s at sea’
In post-Davos speech, Canadian PM jabs at Trump, saying the arc of history ‘can still bend towards progress and justice’Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said his country must be a “beacon to a world that’s at sea” and that national unity was critical as his government faces a...
<p>In post-Davos speech, Canadian PM jabs at Trump, saying the arc of history ‘can still bend towards progress and justice’</p><p>Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said his country must be a “beacon to a world that’s at sea” and that national unity was critical as his government faces a dramatic reshaping of the world political order – and mounting domestic challenges</p><p>The national address, given at a historic military fortress in Quebec City, was far narrower in scope than the prime minister’s remarks earlier in the week at the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland. Dubbed the ‘Carney Doctrine’, the Davos <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/21/nostalgia-is-not-a-strategy-mark-carney-is-emerging-as-the-unflinching-realist-ready-to-tackle-trump">speech lamented the disintegration of rules-based</a> order amid a rise of “great powers” that used economic “coercion” as a weapon.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/carney-says-canada-must-be-a-beacon-to-a-world-thats-at-sea">Continue reading...</a>
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