Mark Carney

We're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading.

Let me be direct.

We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

Every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can and the weak must suffer what they must.

The powerful have their power.

but we have something too.

The capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together.

We know the old order is not coming back.

We shouldn't mourn it.

Nostalgia is not a strategy.

But we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just.

This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.

We know the old order is not coming back.

We shouldn't mourn it.

Nostalgia is not a strategy.

But we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just.

This is the task of the middle powers.

The countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and a most to gain from genuine cooperation.

Until Don gets back, here is the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney.

We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation.