OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's call at the World Economic Forum for middle powers to band together against economic coercion by "great powers" is winning some cross-partisan support at home, and garnering attention all over the world.

States like Canada have long known the current system of international rules-based order is a “fiction,” Carney said.

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In his speech to this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney mourned the demise of international cooperation by evoking an authority from ancient Greece.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 16-minute speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland received a standing ovation, a rare occurrence at the summit.

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Mark Carney warned of economic coercion, urging middle powers to unite as trade and finance became tools of pressure, not cooperation

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the World Economic Forum in Davos that the US-led “rules-based international order” is undergoing a fundamental breakdown. He said the world is facing “a rupture, not a transition” and warned that economic integration is being used as a tool of coercion.