Andrew MacDougall: Canada's Prime Minister has a long history of believing in things until he doesn’t. Remember all of the green talk in his book ‘Values’?

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“The international rules-based order is dead; long live the international rules-based order.”

Those weren’t the words used by Prime Minister Mark Carney in his historic speech to Davos this week, but they might as well have been. The Canadian leader climbed onto the stage at the yearly conclave of financiers and political leaders (and David Beckham) to declare their movement in need of wholesale change, if not dead.

Carney accused the Davos crowd of ‘living within a lie’, of perpetuating the international rules-based order as a fiction equally as delusional as that of the communism described with those same words by the dissident Vaclav Havel in 1970s Czechoslovakia. Invoking Havel’s famous greengrocer, Carney called........

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