‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos | Mark Carney

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : We have agreed a comprehensive strategic partnership with the EU, including joining Safe, the European defence procurement arrangements.
52% : So, on Ukraine, we’re a core member of the coalition of the willing and one of the largest per capita contributors to its defence and security.On Arctic sovereignty, we stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark, and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland’s future.Our commitment to Nato’s article 5 is unwavering, so we’re working with our Nato allies, including the Nordic-Baltic eight, to further secure the alliance’s northern and western flanks, including through Canada’s unprecedented investments in over-the-horizon radar, in submarines, in aircraft and boots on the ground, boots on the ice.Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland and calls for focused talks to achieve our shared objectives of security and prosperity in the Arctic.On plurilateral trade, we’re championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the EU, which would create a new trading bloc of 1.5 billion people.
50% : And our new approach rests on what Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, has termed “value-based realism”.Or, to put another way, we aim to be both principled and pragmatic – principled in our commitment to fundamental values, sovereignty, territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force (except when consistent with the UN charter), andrespect for human rights; and pragmatic and recognising that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner will share all of our values.So, we’re engaging broadly, strategically with open eyes.
50% : We are calibrating our relationships, so their depth reflects our values, and we’re prioritising broad engagement to maximise our influence, given and given the fluidity of the world at the moment, the risks that this poses and the stakes for what comes next.And we are no longer just relying on the strength of our values, but also the value of our strength.We are building that strength at home.Since my government took office, we have cut taxes on incomes, on capital gains and business investment.
50% : We’re negotiating free-trade pacts with India, Asean, Thailand, the Philippines and Mercosur.We’re doing something else.
49% : You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination.The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied – the WTO, the UN, the Cop, the architecture, the very architecture of collective problem-solving – are under threat.

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