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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Canada “lives because of the United States”, responding to comments made a day earlier by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney about the global order.
Trump made the statement during a speech at the World Economic Forum. Referring to Carney’s speech, Trump said, “I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful.”
“Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements,” Trump added.
Carney had earlier said that the post-Cold War “rules-based international order” is no longer working. He added that the world is facing a “rupture, not a transition” and argued that major powers are using economic tools such as tariffs and supply chains to pressure other countries.
He also said that institutions like the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations have weakened and called on middle-sized countries, including Canada, to build new partnerships.
“Let me be 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 laid bare the risks of extreme global integration,” Carney said.
“More recently, great powers began using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains are vulnerable to exploitation.
