Europe awakens as powerful speech from Canadian PM becomes viral sensation

CARNEY’S SPEECH RESONATES, RALLIES EUROPE: It was another day of speeches yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with dozens of notables, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron, taking center stage.

But no speaker riveted the 3,000 attendees — including 400 top political leaders and 60 heads of state — than the low-key, but powerful address delivered by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who, without naming President Donald Trump, said the United States had upended the rules-based international order that guided the actions of countries since the end of World War II.

“More recently, great powers began using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited,” Carney