Carney’s Cardboard Belt

In his “rupture” speech delivered at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney lamented the (apparent) breakdown of the rules-based international order and praised a “new world order” to come. He repeated former Czech president Václav Havel’s admonition against “living in the lie.” The irony was obvious as he proceeded to articulate, as James Albers writes in the Western Standard, “an address saturated with contradictions, misdirection, and half-truths.” In effect, he transformed Havel’s anti-communist warning into what amounts to a pro-communist exhortation.

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Carney did not hold back. He stressed that Canada has among the most educated people in the world, a whopper of purely gratuitous flattery. Naturally, Canada’s glib, decorticated media was all agog over Carney’s