Dominic Cardy, leader of the Canadian Future Party In Davos, we witnessed a moment that tells us as much about our global predicament as about the profound choices facing Canada and the free world. Prime Minister Carney’s address to the World Economic Forum was remarkable, chiefly because he did what too many leaders refuse to do. He acknowledged bluntly that the old world order is gone. As he put it, we are living through “a rupture, not a transition” in international politics, an era where the rules that once constrained great powers no longer hold, and a harsher geopolitical reality is upon us. This observation is obvious to anyone paying attention. The certainties of the last 75 years are dissolving under the weight of rising autocracies, shifting alliances, and economic coercion practiced as statecraft. Where Carney was incisive, and where many of his predecessors were timid, was in naming the problem. The rules-based system of the post-Cold War era is eroding, leaving ...
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