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TACO withdraws Carney from Peace Board.
Trump posted a “letter” to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney “withdrawing” the Canadian leader’s invitation to the “Board of Peace,” which the president proposed to “oversee the next phase of his peace plan for the Gaza Strip, but ... has since morphed into something with a much broader remit.
Next for TACO: Board Of War.
Idiot TACO
Trump had previously lashed out at Canada during his Davos address on Wednesday, accusing the country of getting “a lot of freebies” from the U.S. and saying they should be “grateful.”
“I watched your Prime Minister yesterday, he wasn't so grateful,” Trump told the audience, referencing the speech Carney had delivered the day before.
President Donald Trump told Davos attendees that “Canada lives because of the United States.”
Arguing that diversity is “a strength, not a weakness,” Carney maintained that Canada is “the greatest country in the world to be a regular person” and said you don’t need to be rich, “have a certain color,” or “worship a certain God” in order to thrive.
Carney emphasized: “We are masters in our home, this is our own country, it’s our future, the choice is up to us.”Carney said the old world order is “not coming back.” Encouraging people not to “mourn” the way things used to be, he advised that “nostalgia is not a strategy.”
Carney also urged middle powers to stand up for themselves, accusing “great powers” of using economic pressure to yield results.
Note: The Canadian Armed Forces has been planning for over a year, should America advance over the border.
Globe and mail article.
Listening to Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday was like feeling a shaft of light piercing the gloom.
“Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints. But I also submit to you that other countries, particularly middle powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that embodies our values, like respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of states. The power of the less powerful begins with honesty.”
That was the beginning of what turned out to be a powerful declaration of intent, heralding a shift in the perception of how things have to be. He laid out Canada’s strengths and its focus on building strategic relationships. His was not the boorish, rude and self-aggrandising speech delivered by the US President on Wednesday; it was principled, clear and marked by integrity.
“Canada is a pluralistic society that works. Our public square is loud, diverse and free. Canadians remain committed to sustainability. We are a stable and reliable partner in a world that is anything but. A partner that builds and values relationships for the long term,” he said. “We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation. It calls for honesty about the world as it is. We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But we believe that from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers. The countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.”
The bullying and hectoring that has defined the “world order”, the threats to comply or else, this is the culture that has overstepped even the gossamer threads of diplomacy. Not once did Carney descend into that pit of ugliness, but he was direct about the time to overthrow old ways.
Davos ...PM Carney.