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The Canadian PM’s Davos Speech Is Unmissable in a Time of “Rupture”

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21.01.2026

“Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Canadian PM Mark Carney said at the Davos economic gathering in Switzerland yesterday.Anadolu/Getty

President Donald Trump famously doesn’t like to read. And if his increasingly frequent public naps are any indication, his attention span is only getting shorter. But he did claim to watch what one historian praised as a “riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest” speech by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada yesterday in Davos, Switzerland. And Trump’s reaction was typically petulant.

Imploring an audience chock-full of European........

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