The world is “in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” the Canadian prime minister said at Davos, adding that the “old order is not coming back.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney said yesterday that Canada, a member of NATO, stood with Denmark and its territory of Greenland and “their unique right to determine Greenland’s future” in the face of Trump’s threats to seize the Arctic island.
Canada, a longtime U.S. ally, was among the earliest targets of Trump’s steep tariffs. Trump has also talked about making Canada the 51st state, and this week he posted on social media an altered map showing the U.S. flag superimposed over the U.S., Canada, Venezuela and Greenland.
Without naming Trump, Carney said great powers had recently begun “using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.”
He said fellow middle powers must work together, “because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”