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Mark Carney’s speech this week at the World Economic Forum was impactful, if not masterful. It was a state of the union of sorts not only for Canadians, but for the international community to come to grips with what Carney sees as the new world order. By all accounts, he is doing his job — marketing Canada to new trading partners. But in the same breath, he has turned his back on our biggest ally and trading partner (even with tariffs) — the United States.

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Canada certainly deserves the right to carve a place in the world. In Carney’s worldview, we cannot simply “get along and go along.“ Stephen Harper used to say those principled words on the world stage as part of his foreign policy, but especially when standing up for Israel and fighting Antisemitism: “The easy thing to do is simply to just get along and go along with this anti-Israel rhetoric, to pretend it is just being even-handed, and to excuse oneself with the label of honest broker.”

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