Carney had warned of a "rupture" in the world order in a headline-making speech.

In a filmed address delivered upon his return to Quebec City on Thursday, Carney—who also attended the World Economic Forum in Switzerland—firmly stated: “Canada does not live because of the United States. Canada thrives because we are Canadian.”

Renewed verbal attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump are prompting Canadians to rally behind Prime Minister Mark Carney, who earned a rare standing ovation in Davos for openly decrying powerful nations using economic integration as weapons and tariffs as leverage.

Carney said in a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday praised his country, saying “the choice is up to us” when it comes to Canada’s future, after President Trump said Canada “lives because of the U.S.” “Canada and the United States have built a remarkable partnership,

The world order is changing but not enduring a rupture, finance leaders said on Friday, pushing back on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s narrative that a new order, driven by major power coercion, was taking shape.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet are gathering in Quebec City for a second day of meetings ahead of Parliament’s return Monday.

Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci warned that when an old order is dying and a new one has yet to be born, politics enters an interregnum — an unstable period in which familiar rules stop working and “monsters” appear. In Gramsci’s ...