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highplainsdem

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Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:18 PM Tuesday

Canada PM Mark Carney gets standing ovation at Davos as he warns of world order 'rupture' [View all]

Source: Independent

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation at Davos Tuesday as he warned that “the old order is not coming back.”

Carney spoke at the World Economic Forum, insisting the world order based on rules has become “fiction” and stressing the need for smaller countries to forge new alliances.

"If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate," Carney said, without mentioning President Donald Trump or the U.S.

“We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation. It calls for honesty about the world as it is,” he continued.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-carney-davos-speech-standing-ovation-world-order-trump-b2904200.html

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