Mark Carney

We are taking the sign out of the window.

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.

Canada can't solve all the world's problems, but we can show that another way is possible, that the arc of history isn't

destined to be warped towards authoritarianism and exclusion, it can still bend towards progress and justice.

In a time of democratic decline, we can show how rights can be protected and equal freedoms endure.

In a time of rising walls and thickening borders, we can demonstrate how a country can be both open and secure, welcoming and strong, principled and powerful.

In a time of democratic decline, we can show how rights can be protected and equal freedoms endure.

In a time of rising walls and thickening borders, we can demonstrate how a country can be both open and secure, welcoming and strong, principled and powerful.

In a time of democratic decline, we can show how rights can be protected and equal freedoms endure.

In a time of rising walls and thickening borders, we can demonstrate how a country can be both open and secure, welcoming and strong, principled and powerful.

In a time of democratic decline, we can show how rights can be protected and equal freedoms endure.

And in a time of rising walls and thickening borders, we can demonstrate how a country can be both open and secure, welcoming and strong, principled and powerful.

Direct.

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

Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.

But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons.