‘If we’re not at table, we’re on menu’: At Davos, Canada PM Carney urges middle powers to unite, affirms support to Greenland

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Tuesday said the “old order is not coming back” and urged all the fellow middle powers to unite as powerful nations are using economic coercion to acquire what they want.

In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Carney said: “Middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

Carney said the world is “in the midst of a rupture, not a transition”. “Great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited,” he said. He added that Canada was among the “first to hear the wake-up call” that geography and historic alliances no longer ensures security or prosperity.