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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's landmark speech tells us a lot about the future of climate and energy geopolitics.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a pointed speech at the World Economic Forum 2026 in Davos, declaring that decades of reliance on the rules-based international order have become untenable.
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Full text and video: Mark Carney tells World Economic Forum 'the old order is not coming back'
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech on Tuesday at a plenary session at the World Economic Forum, the annual meeting of influential leaders in Davos, Switzerland.
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Switzerland on Monday to join the global power elite for the World Economic Forum in the ski resort town of Davos, where he's looking to drum up investment from other countries and corporations.
Carney said in a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the prime minister was praised for his blunt talk about the president’s irrevocable “rupture” in the world order.
Carney evoked the landmark 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless“ by former Czech freedom fighter Václav Havel, who eventually led the Velvet Revolution that led to free elections in his country in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall toppled the Soviet Union. Havel later received a hero’s welcome in Canada in 1999.
In his speech to this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney mourned the demise of international cooperation by evoking an authority from ancient Greece.