Sen. Peter Boehm, a former diplomat, told CBC’s Power & Politics that Carney’s remarks were the “most consequential” delivered by a Canadian prime minister since Louis St. Laurent — minister responsible external affairs at the time — laid out Canada’s post-Second World War foreign policy direction in 1947.

Louise Blais, a former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, told Power & Politics that she thinks Carney is attempting to position Canada as a leader among the middle powers.

  • Rentlar
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    7 days ago

    He definitely has talked like that at earlier EU Canada economic forums and made several concrete steps in trade diversification in the months before the speech, so it’s not a sudden about face.

    But I still can’t help but notice he talks a lot differently at European forums than over here, I wish he talked to Canadians like that more often. I don’t fault people if they wonder whether Carney’s serious since he has also made moves that appeared to appease the US, while in part of the speech Carney says middle powers including Canada should stop doing that.