Words mean little if they are not followed up with action

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Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum that rightly named the hard realities of a fractured geopolitical system, and the urgent need for middle powers like Canada to step up with resolve and realism.

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Words do matter, especially in moments of crisis like the one Canada presently finds itself in. But to protect our country, Canadians cannot allow themselves to believe that words alone are enough. Action is needed, too.

But action was conspicuously lacking from Carney’s speech.

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Ironically, and to that point, Carney invoked the words of Václav Havel’s essay “The Power of the Powerless.” Carney cited Havel’s greengrocer, who, while living in a communist dictatorship, refused to display the regime’s propaganda sign, to argue that Canada and other middle powers must reject superpower incursions on........

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