Carney’s middle powers alliance to confront ‘specific problems’ lacking specifics: observers

'These clubs kind of come and go, and unless they are specific to an articulated strategic objective, they become talk shops,' says former Canadian envoy Sabine Nölke.
Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney's vision for an alliance of middle powers took its first step towards implementation with the creation of the Partners for Multilateralism.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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BY NEIL MOSS
September 30, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney has a new club of countries forming his envisioned alliance of middle powers, but observers say more details are needed about what the bloc will do. 

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