Cartney’s speech at the World Economic Forum

Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a hard-hitting speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about the “new world order” and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
The speech came against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions between major powers such as Russia, China and the United States, and as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens allies with tariffs and pushes to acquire Greenland from Denmark, a member of the NATO military alliance.

It seems that every day we are reminded that we live in an era of great rivalry between powers, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.
And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations that reaffirms itself. And in the face of this logic, there is a strong tendency in countries to accept, to get along to adapt, to avoid problems, to wait for compliance to provide them with security.

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