Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum that rightly named the hard realities of a fractured geopolitical system, and the urgent need for middle powers like Canada to step up with resolve and realism.
Words do matter, especially in moments of crisis like the one Canada presently finds itself in. But to protect our country, Canadians cannot allow themselves to believe that words alone are enough. Action is needed, too.
The Prime Minister’s polished Davos speech wasn’t a call to truth — it was a sermon in deception, repackaging contradictions as a global vision.
I listened with genuine interest to Prime Minister Carney’s speech at Davos. It was, by any technical measure, one of his better performances. Polished, confident, impeccably delivered. If one were unfamiliar with the actual state of affairs, if one were blissfully ignorant of the realities beneath what he calls the “rupture” in international relations, the speech might have appeared a beacon of hope in dark times.
And therein lies the problem. One must either be ignorant of the facts or willing to live a lie.
No, Canada is not selling out to Beijing
Well, that got their attention. Since the Prime Minister’s visit to China, the American media – and social media – have been filled with expressions of shock and amazement.
For critics of Donald Trump, it was payback for his bullying and abusive treatment of America’s nearest neighbour and historic ally. For the President’s supporters, it was a sign of Canadian perfidy, if not grounds for invasion. Canada will “surely regret” gives you the flavour of it.
Smarmy Mark Carney has an ick factor that is off the charts – I mean, he really does.
Mark Carney is the selected and then elected replacement for twee Justin ‘Fidelito’ Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada. As a Davos-blessed former global investment banker, Carney has never met a carbon tax he didn’t like or a population control scheme he couldn’t get behind.
Whatever you think of the wisdom of Mark Carney’s trade deal with China, it’s not a big vote of confidence for the future of Canada’s auto industry. At least, not the auto industry we have known.
It was a move to jump-start trade with the world’s second-largest economy, opening the big Chinese market to Canadian canola, peas and seafood.
Yet, the concession that Mr. Carney made – accepting imports of 49,000 Chinese vehicles a year with very low tariffs – is a far bigger signal than he admitted.
It feels a bit Taylor Swiftian.
Hurt feelings.
Unsent texts.
Exotic trips with someone else.
Yearning for what was last summer.
Premier Doug Ford sounded like a spurned paramour from a Swift song as he bleated about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.
I hope Ford goes Ape.
Prime Minister Mark Carney turned some heads in Switzerland on Tuesday with his stark assessment of the current state of global affairs.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Carney said that not only is the old international order over and “not coming back” — but it had been a mirage all along.
“We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim,” the prime minister said.
Here’s our new Brookfield foreign policy
Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney promoted a “New World Order” with China leading the charge—and, unsurprisingly, Brookfield connections are involved.
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— Juno News (@junonewscom) January 20, 2026
“Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that Mark, the next time you make statements” 🎤 President Trump at WEF in Davos pic.twitter.com/bUWaR41tPp
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) January 21, 2026
Let them eat chocolate!
Canada’s current and former prime ministers — and the latter’s celebrity gal pal — are “gallivanting” in Switzerland as Oshawa’s local economy evaporates. Ingersoll, Brampton and Sault Ste. Marie’s too.
Bumped into Katy Perry and her Canadian boyfriend today in Davos. Video to come. pic.twitter.com/PXVX7JiOr1
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) January 20, 2026
OTTAWA — After nearly five decades in policing, intelligence, and financial-crime investigations—including professional experience working in Asia—I have learned a simple rule: who you cooperate with matters as much as what you cooperate on.
Last week, the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Canada and the People’s Republic of China will enhance law enforcement cooperation on drug trafficking, transnational and cybercrime, and money laundering. On paper, this sounds reasonable. Fentanyl is devastating communities. Cybercrime drains billions. Organized crime adapts faster than borders.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a global order based on rules has been rendered “fiction” and is urging smaller countries to forge new strategic alliances to keep from being subjugated by “great powers” acting in their own self-interest.
Carney’s speech Tuesday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, did not specifically name-check President Donald Trump or his administration, but it amounted to a rallying cry for smaller countries to work together to wrestle economic control of their future.
“This fiction was useful,” Carney said. “This bargain no longer works.”
He’s worried about his trust.
Mark Carney's "New World Order" speech in China wasn't a threat—it was a confession.
The British Empire's 80-year playbook is dead. Trump isn't creating chaos. He's ending it.
Venezuela. Iran. Gaza. The Muslim Brotherhood.
Watch how he's dismantling their system: pic.twitter.com/8pO15UZPgA
— Promethean Action (@PrometheanActn) January 17, 2026
With the ongoing trade war with the United States, frequent annexation rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump, and the potential for two separatist referendums at home, Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing some of the most serious challenges confronted by any prime minister. Still, his performance is receiving mixed reviews from some political players who say Carney’s handling of the situation is a “technocratic” one, driven by officials in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Privy Council Office, when he should be opening up to the country.
“We’re facing a truly existential crisis,” said John English, a historian, author, and former Liberal MP in an interview with The Hill Times. “We have to recognize that we’re in real trouble.”
The Liberal Party of Canada has long been a political chameleon. It has been able to pragmatically adapt to contemporary issues and position itself toward the political centre of things. When the party drifts too far to one side of the spectrum, as happened under Justin Trudeau, it can reinvent itself and reset the electoral clock, as it did with Mark Carney. It’s an infuriating ability for partisan Conservatives to watch, and it has kept the Liberals as the predominant party in power for decades.
If the federal government is expecting Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers will rush to build an assembly plant in Canada, economists, industry analysts and insiders say they’re sorely mistaken.
The biggest reasons, say experts? There’s no guarantee Chinese EV makers would be able to sell anything they produced here in the U.S., it would cost billions to build or buy a plant, and they’ve already got more than enough capacity at home.
The goal is for Carney and pals to personally profit from their ‘relationships” with the ChiComs.
They’ll casually lie to further those interests.
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based international order is over and middle powers like Canada must pivot to avoid falling prey to further “coercion” from powerful actors.
Without invoking U.S. President Donald Trump by name, Carney said “great powers” are using economic integration as “weapons.”
“Canadians know that our old, comfortable assumption that our geography and alliance memberships automatically conferred prosperity and security is no longer valid,” Carney said.
LIVE: from the World Economic Forum • EN DIRECT : au Forum économique mondial https://t.co/fcNf3WUYbf
— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) January 20, 2026
Or …”Doing business with the ChiComs is far more profitable without that pain in the ass accountability.”
Steve Bannon is in the ratings business these days, so he can say outrageous things with impunity.
On his influential War Room podcast last week, he talked about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “kowtowing” visit to China and said: “Let me be blunt, you are playing with fire. You will rue the day you did that. President (Donald) Trump is not just going to let the Chinese Communist Party become an active strategic partner up there. It’s not going to happen.”
Ivison is an Elbow person pass it on.
Canada was a good country.
Now it’s just an ATM for an elite that seeks to criminalize citizens for simply being.
