KENNETH RAPOZA: Canada Has Joined Opposition To US
Unlike Mexico, Canada has been moving away from the United States since 2017, with recent realignments serving as counters to Trump. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos explains it all, even though he refused…
Unlike Mexico, Canada has been moving away from the United States since 2017, with recent realignments serving as counters to Trump. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos explains it all, even though he refused to name the target of his angst, which is us.
Carney’s speech about the “middle powers” at the World Economic Forum recently was simple: stop pretending there is a liberal international order that works. It was always international lawfare led by the most powerful Western nations, he said. We were all bullies imposing the will of the globalist liberal order upon the plebs of the developing world. Do as we say or face the consequences. He put a new spin on it, aimed at the Europeans primarily. Less powerful countries in that old order are “facing the consequences.”
Carney’s prescription is that these middle powers, of which Canada is one, must treat “integration” with larger powers as a vulnerability when integration is used as leverage.
“Middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” he said.
Whose menu, you might ask?
It can’t be China’s because they just reached a tariff-reset/partnership-style arrangement with them, something Mexico would never dream of doing.
The menu he is referring to is Chef Trump’s menu at Café Americano. Canada opposes Trump, with Carney coming out of Davos as the Western opposition’s Frosty the Globalist.
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