Davos, Mark Carney and Trump
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's landmark speech tells us a lot about the future of climate and energy geopolitics.
David Coletto, the boss of Abacus Data, a polling firm, reckons Mr Carney probably amassed domestic political capital with his Davos speech, a rallying cry to stand up to Mr Trump, which plays well with most Canadians.
When he spoke at Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney referenced a 1978 essay by Vaclav Havel, written when Czechoslovakia was under Soviet control.
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World / The Canadian prime minister offered a radical analysis of the collapse of the liberal world order. His response to that collapse is unacceptably conservative. Jeet Heer Nobody would ever call Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney a charismatic speaker.
The Canadian prime minister spoke of ‘an era of great power rivalry,’ and suggested the US-led world order was over, which was seen as a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s efforts to acquire Greenland
The U.S. president suggested that Canada's prime minister should remember to be "grateful" for the "freebies" America provides.
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Mark Carney’s Davos speech marks a major departure from Canada’s usual approach to the U.S.
Mark Carney clearly hopes a new global world order may emerge that’s not only more resilient to diverse and unpredictable threats, but is more honest and just.
What did PM Mark Carney's speeches in Davos and Quebec mean? Not every expert agrees the widely acclaimed messages were without flaws.