Mark Carney at Davos: Canada’s return, and the birth of a new voice for the Global South
Mark Carney’s Davos speech will be remembered as more than a policy address. It was an announcement — of Canada’s re-arrival on the global stage not as a passive beneficiary of an old order, but as an active shaper of the new one. At a moment when uncertainty, coercion, and fragmentation define international politics, Carney chose clarity over comfort. In doing so, he displayed the kind of moral courage required to energise a nation facing an existential moment in its history. For decades,...