Canadian Prime Minister Mary Carney’s keynote address at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos has sparked widespread international coverage as global news organizations weigh the future amid rising geopolitical tensions.

As President Trump continued his quest for Greenland, Prime Minister Mark Carney said great powers were unrestrained and urged medium-size countries to band together.

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States like Canada have long known the current system of international rules-based order is a “fiction,” Carney said.

It is rare to expose the fiction at the heart of the so-called rules-based international order – a system of ever-expanding trade and commercial relations governed by agreed rules – under which Canada, and many other “middle power” countries benefited, but which was neither just, fair nor applied equally to all.

Experts say Canada's presence at the World Economic Forum takes on more importance this year with Prime Minister Mark Carney's pitch to expand global trade relationships, especially as rhetoric from U.

At the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada took a stand against President Trump’s desire for the United States to own Greenland, and called on medium-size countries to stand up to larger powers.