Canada’s Next Chapter

At the dawn of 2026, amid the snow-covered peaks of Davos, where the world’s elite convene each year, a rallying call reverberated through the Swiss Alps from a country more readily associated with consensus than conviction. It was Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney who plainly named the mokita at the heart of global politics: With the rules-based international order fracturing and the world entering “a state of rupture,” middle powers can no longer afford to retreat into the shadows.“When you share a border with the G1, you're inextricably linked. When Canadians realized that U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘51st state’ comments should not be taken lightly, it crystallized the need to take control of our own destiny, and the election of Prime Minister Carney reinforced that view,” explains