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Prime Minister Carney’s now-famous speech at Davos outlined a vision of Canada charting a path as a “middle power” between increasingly belligerent “great powers” dominating a lawless planet.

But his speech left out something critical.

Just one of these “great powers” is currently waging war on its own population, executing people in the street and disappearing untold numbers of predominantly racialized people into concentration camps.

Just one of these “great powers” has, in the last year, bombed at least seven countries, illegally kidnapped a president, and threatened to topple the governments of multiple others—let alone threatened the sovereignty of both Greenland and Canada.

Just one of these “great powers” has responded to international attempts to hold its ally, Israel, accountable for genocide in Palestine by sanctioning judges of the International Criminal Court, sanctioning the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories, and cutting funding for the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees.

Just one of these “great powers” maintains nearly 800 military bases worldwide, a trillion-dollar annual military budget, and a nuclear arsenal large enough to destroy life on Earth multiple times over.

Just one of these “great........

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