It’s time to review the foreign policy roadmap

The prime minister says we must 'take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be,' but the guide for how we get to that desired place is still missing a few key directions.

Prime Minister Mark Carney told the World Economic Forum that Canada has the 'capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together.' He should now tell Canadians what that means on the home front.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

January 21, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney had some inkling of what he was signing up for when he ran for the top job last year, but United States President Donald Trump has been hell-bent on upsetting the apple cart to a far more riotous degree than most reasonable people likely expected.

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