President Donald Trump yanked Canada’s invitation to his newly launched “Board of Peace” after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used a high-profile speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday to lecture about the end of U.S.-led global leadership.
Trump announced the move late Thursday on Truth Social, informing Carney that Canada would no longer be welcome on what the administration has billed as an elite international group aimed at resolving global conflicts. Trump has invited dozens of countries to join the Board of Peace, which was initially pitched as part of the president’s Gaza peace plan but has since been framed as a broader global body.
“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” Trump wrote. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.”
While several regional powers joined Trump in signing the board’s founding charter on Thursday, many traditional U.S. partners remained on the sidelines. Some European governments have said they needed more time to consider the proposal, while others, such as France and Spain, have declined outright.
Trump’s decision to rescind Canada’s invitation followed days of public sparring between the president and Carney in Davos.
Without naming the U.S. or Trump directly, Carney argued during his Davos remarks on Tuesday that the “international rules‑based order” has become a “fiction,” contending that powerful countries increasingly act without regard for long-standing norms.
“I will talk today about the breaking of the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a brutal reality where the geopolitics of the great powers is not subject to any constraint,” Carney said. “Every day we are reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry — that the rules-based order is fading. That the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”
Carney’s remarks came just days after he declared a “new world order” during a visit to China, and praised the “leadership of President Xi Jinping.”
Trump told the World Economic Forum audience on Wednesday that Canada “lives because of the United States — remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”
“Canada gets a lot of freebies from us,” Trump added. “They should be grateful, also, but they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful.”
Carney fired back Thursday insisting Canada “thrives because we are Canadian,” not because of American support. He added during a subsequent address that the “arc of history isn’t destined to be warped toward authoritarianism and exclusion; it can still bend toward progress and justice.”
Canada thrives because we are Canadian. pic.twitter.com/jBTiOyJFj5
— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) January 22, 2026
The clash comes amid a broader friction in U.S.–Canada relations during Trump’s second term, as Trump has floated using “economic force” to pressure Canada to become the 51st state. Ahead of Carney’s speech, Trump posted an image on his Truth Social platform featuring a fake map that showed Canada, Greenland and Venezuela under the U.S. flag.
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