To diversify trade, ditch the ideological baggage

Canada’s trade diversification policy amounts to signing more old school free trade and investment deals as quickly, and with as little debate, as possible.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking in January at the World Economic Forum, said the international order is shifting, forcing middle powers to adapt as they face a 'rupture' in global systems.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY STUART TREW

February 23, 2026

The second presidency of Donald Trump has accelerated the unravelling of the international rules-based trading order. Prime Minister Mark Carney, in his lauded January speech to the World Economic Forum, called it a “rupture” from which there is no going back.

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