Canada’s Enemy No. 1: Complacency

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney was the adult in the room.

In his speech he told the world that the American-led, rules-based international order — the foundation for the prosperity and security of liberal democracies for 80 years — is over.

His remarks were, in some ways, a bookend to Winston Churchill’s famous 1946 “Iron Curtain speech” in Fulton, Missouri, which called on the West, led by the United States and Britain, to collectively confront the menace of Soviet communism. The global order that Carney pronounced dead in Davos was arguably born in Fulton.