00:00Canada this week saying it should be grateful to Washington a day after its Prime Minister warned of a rupture to the US-led global system.
00:08In a rousing address to Delegates at Davos, Mark Carney expressed his country's desire to forge new alliances with like-minded nations as it navigates a tricky relationship with the Trump administration.
00:21Let's hear a little of what the two leaders have been saying.
00:24It seems that 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.
00:43And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself.
00:52And faced with this logic, there is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety.
01:10Well, it won't.
01:11We're building a Golden Dome that's going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending Canada.
01:21Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way.
01:24They should be grateful also, but they're not.
01:26I watched your Prime Minister yesterday.
01:29He wasn't so grateful.
01:31But they should be grateful to us.
01:33Canada.
01:34Canada lives because of the United States.
01:36Let's remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.
01:41Well, for more, let's cross live now to Ottawa to speak with our correspondent there, Christopher Gooley.
01:46Great power rivalry as Mark Carney there.
01:49Donald Trump is not too pleased at all with his comments.
01:53Europe and Canada, they do appear recently to be closing ranks against this threat that's looming from Washington.
02:01Christopher, what do you think Mark Carney's end goal is here?
02:03Well, he obviously telegraphed what Mr. Trump was about to say today, that the international rules-based order,
02:14where the might are intended to make right, only make right when it's in their interest.
02:21It was a remarkable speech by a Canadian Prime Minister.
02:24In Canada, I mean, the talk is we have to go back almost 80 years to a previous future Liberal Prime Minister,
02:31Louis Aloran, who was External Affairs Minister, the equivalent of a Foreign Affairs Minister at the time,
02:36who in 1947 laid out a post-war international rules-based strategy for Canada.
02:44And that's exactly what Mark Carney did within the reality of the U.S.
02:47We're now into year two of the Trump administration and the previous year.
02:52It's been threat after threat, tariffs in 51st state.
02:56So Mr. Carney has just articulated what he has been doing also over the past year.
03:03Over the last month, he's been to China, Qatar.
03:06He's now in Davos, well, less than a month.
03:08And reaching out to countries around the world to ensure that middle powers are at, as he said at his speech yesterday in Davos,
03:17are at the table, otherwise they're on the menu.
03:21And Christopher, there must be some relief there in Canada this evening,
03:26as there is surely in many European capitals tonight,
03:29hearing Donald Trump saying that some kind of a deal is nearing for Greenland.
03:34And we spoke last night about the concerns that people have there over Trump's ambitions for the Arctic island.
03:40Has there been much reaction there as of yet as to his latest comments?
03:47Well, the comment just came out a few minutes ago,
03:49but I can tell you that it also talks about an Arctic strategy,
03:53and that is going to raise concerns in Canada.
03:56As I mentioned to you a couple of days ago,
03:58that Greenland positioning by the U.S. creates that pincer effect for Canada.
04:05So on the Atlantic side, you've got, if the U.S. acquires Greenland in however way it does, if it ever does,
04:11and then you've got Alaska on the western side.
04:13So you've got this pincer effect.
04:15And I think that Canada would like to pull together some of the Arctic countries of the Arctic Council,
04:23perhaps excluding the United States and Russia, and have a meeting of minds and saying,
04:28and reaching some sort of an agreement as to how to deal with this threat.
04:33Because it's now not just Greenland.
04:36He's now talking about Arctic security.
04:39And is there any, do you get any impression that he's going to make more of an effort?
04:43There might be a war of words ongoing this week between Mark Carney and Donald Trump.
04:47But do you think that, given the situation now in Greenland,
04:50that he might try to reconcile, perhaps, his relationship with Washington over the course of the next year or so?
04:59Well, I think that Mark Carney is smart enough to know that he always has to reach out to Donald Trump.
05:05I mean, Canada and the U.S. are, they have the longest undefended border, undefended so far in the world.
05:13The U.S. is Canada's largest trading partner.
05:15It's significant for the United States.
05:17So, obviously, Mark Carney and Donald Trump will have to get along.
05:21We'll see where the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement goes.
05:27Donald Trump has already signaled that, as it's known in Canada,
05:30KUSMA, the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement, is not important to him.
05:36He says it's more important to Canada.
05:37So, as a result of that rhetoric, whether it turns into reality,
05:43the Carney government is now pursuing other trade partners globally
05:48and hoping that, you know, KUSMA, the U.S. MCA, as it's known, south of the border, will survive.
05:55Christopher, thanks so much for coming to us with that update, all that information as well.
06:00It's very interesting to get the view from Canada.
06:02So, that's our correspondent there, Christopher Gooley, joining us live from Ottawa.
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