January 20, 2026 • Davos Klosters, Switzerland
Canada's Path Forward: Mark Carney's Historic Speech - Infograph
THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS: A New Strategy for Middle Powers
📝 FHarbour
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RUPTURE
Not Transition
Old rules-based order has fundamentally changed
🛡️
2X
Defense Spending
Canada must double military investment
📈
$1T
Investment Fast-Track
For energy, AI, and critical minerals
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5+
New Trade Alliances
China, Qatar, India, ASEAN, Mercosur
- Greengrocer puts up sign "Workers unite" he doesn't believe
- Everyone complies → system survives on performed lie
- "It is time for companies and countries to TAKE THEIR SIGNS DOWN"
- [Standing ovation moment]
- Old rules-based order → RUPTURE, not transition
- Great powers weaponize integration (tariffs, supply chains, finance)
- Middle powers can no longer "go along to get along"
- Result: Subordination if we keep pretending
- Value-based realism: Principled + Pragmatic
- Build REAL strength & sovereignty at home
- Diversify aggressively abroad
- Variable geometry coalitions (issue-by-issue alliances)
- Stop mourning the old order – "Nostalgia is not a strategy"
- Name reality honestly
- Reduce vulnerabilities → earn right to principled stands
- "If we're not at the table, we're on the menu"
KEY QUOTES
"The old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it."
"Nostalgia is not a strategy."
"If we're not at the table, we're on the menu."
tariffs
WTO
UN
COP
NATO Article 5
Arctic sovereignty
Greenland
energy
critical minerals
AI governance
Václav Havel