‘World Is Facing A Rupture, Not Transition….’: Canadian PM Mark Carney Slams US Tariffs | World News

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned on Tuesday that the world was experiencing a deep “rupture” in the global order rather than a gradual change.

Speaking at the 56th Annual Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Carney warned against the weaponization of trade, finance and supply chains.

Carney criticized the use of tariffs as a tool of pressure, making subtle references to US actions, including those involving Greenland, and called for strengthening multilateral cooperation to preserve sovereignty, stability and prosperity.

The Canadian Prime Minister observed that an era of a stable, rules-based international order has given way to a more challenging geopolitical landscape dominated by great power competition.

Carney said, “Every day we seem to be living in an age of great power competition in which the rules-based order is weakening, the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must… This aphorism of change is presented as inevitable, as if the natural logic of international relations were reasserting itself.” he added, stating that the world “is facing a rupture, not a transition.”

Canada recognized that the current international system has never been perfect and emphasized that powerful countries such as the United States sometimes bend or ignore the rules for their own benefit.

However, he emphasized that the framework created by Washington still provides global public goods, including open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and dispute resolution mechanisms.

“Countries like Canada have prospered for decades under the rules-based international order. So we valued a foreign policy aimed at preserving it. We knew that the story of the rules-based international system was partly wrong: The most powerful often exempted themselves when convenient, trade rules were applied asymmetrically, and international law applied differently to the accused and the victim,” he said.

Carney’s comments were a subtle reference to recent tariff threats against European allies linked to US President Donald Trump’s plan to buy Greenland.

Emphasizing the dangers of such change, the Canadian leader warned that a world moving towards protectionism and economic isolation would be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable. While he also acknowledged that many countries are seeking greater strategic autonomy to protect themselves, he emphasized that relying on isolationism and unilateralism is not a viable approach in the long term.