https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

Some quotes:

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.

But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

You cannot “live within the lie” of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.

A country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.

But let’s be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable.

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    3 days ago

    Ironically, I think weakening some of those reputational things you mention will also weaken Canada’s right wing by taking the wind out of many of their grievances. Our conservative parties are already Frankenstein coalitions of moderate right-wingers and the more extreme far-right, hopefully this will crack the sutures.