In the snow-capped Swiss town of Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday delivered a speech that cut through the polite veneer of global forums. Urging leaders to abandon the “rules-based order” as mere theater, he invoked Vaclav Havel’s essay “The Power of the Powerless” to critique performative gestures like shopkeepers in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia who displayed unity slogans without conviction.

In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it here

While Many Leaders Act Like Stunned Victims in the Face of Trump's Threats, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Acknowledged in His World Economic Forum Speech That International…

In the snow-capped Swiss town of Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday delivered a speech that cut through the polite veneer of global forums. Urging leaders to…