Reaction to Mark Carney’s vision of a New World Order without the U.S.

From stages in Davos to New York, and this week in Yerevan, Armenia, Prime Minister Mark Carney does not miss an opportunity to enlighten international audiences on his vision of a New World Order. It appears expressly anti-American. His vision is a rules-based global order, formed by alliances and agreements, that will have the collective weight to counter U.S. influence in foreign affairs and international trade matters. For Canada, Carney looks to pivot from the U.S. and establish alliances with the European Union and China, while realigning the country’s trade relations. 

 

The New World Order as conjured up by Carney was heralded at the European Political Community summit, where the Canadian prime minister became the first non-European leader to attend a meeting. Carney delivered an address to the 47 heads of state and government in which he made the observation that the post-World War II era of American leadership has ended and a new era was dawning, “It is my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe.”

 

He asserted that Europe will not submit to a “more transactional, insular and brutal world” and he complemented his hosts by saying “gatherings such as these point to a better way forward.” He stated, “We are demonstrating not just the strength of our values in defending a rules-based international order, but also the value of our strength. The world is undergoing a rupture across several dimensions – integration is being used as a weapon by some and the rules are not constraining the hegemons.”

 

This global “rupture” and “reset” narrative Carney had said before, but still his words of wisdom in Armenia were amplified in much of the international media. The Euro News published a feature “The 28th EU member? Why Canada is eyeing a closer bond with Brussels” and Canada’s CBC News fueled the idea of a Canada-EU union with “Canada and Europe should get ‘creative’ in forging closer ties, EU ambassador says.” The London Economic News reported Carney’s latest comments are “the biggest sign yet that Canada is ditching the US for Europe.” It described Carney’s speech as “powerful” and reported: “The Canadian leader has made it clear neither he nor his nation will put up with Trump’s America, and has become one of the most vocal critics of Trump among Western leaders.”

 

While before his European audience, Carney repeated the claim from when he signed a series of Canada-EU agreements in Brussels in June 2025, that Canada is “the most European of the non-European countries.” This week the prime minister issued a media release announcing a new $270-million commitment toward NATO military capabilities in Europe. He also garnered media with the news that he is “very pleased” to be asked to address the European Parliament later this year. Carney’s performance in Armenia was an affirmative nod to Europeans that Canada is serious in cementing the multiple MOUs regarding defence and military procurement, energy, critical minerals, banking, and the development of AI and digital ID infrastructures. 

 

But here is the reality check. No matter the Liberals’ political spin on the prime minister’s European ventures, closer economic relations with the EU cannot replace the symbiotic relationship Canadian business has with its southern neighbours. The raw data tells the story: Canadian trade with all the countries of the EU amounts to about a tenth of that with the U.S. (in 2025, Canada exported $34.5 billion to the EU / $383 billion to the U.S. and imported $54.2 billion from the EU / $336.5 from the U.S.). 

 

The made-for-media announcements and photo ops choreographed by the European politicos were not as much about economic partnership as it was to send a message to Washington D.C. The question Canadian political pundits are now debating is what impact will Carney promoting a New World Order have on Canada-U.S. relations. Dante Rossi, a political commentator from Montreal, was direct in his assessment of the news from Armenia: “Mark Carney is single-handedly torching the indispensable U.S.-Canada alliance. While cozying up to European summits and pouring more resources into Ukraine, he’s alienating America’s new administration, risking tariffs, border chaos, and energy cooperation that have underpinned Canadian prosperity for decades. Turning his back on our closest neighbor for transatlantic virtue-signaling isn’t ‘strategic’—it’s diplomatic suicide that will leave Canadians colder, poorer, and isolated.”

 

The Carney government is implementing a similar power play with Canada’s newly forged “strategic partnership” with Beijing. In highly publicized meetings with Chinese officials in January, Carney announced a new era in Canada-Sino relations, one that will reset the world for the New World Order. In those meetings, Carney and President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials signed a bundle of confidential MOUs on policing, shared security intelligence, finance, energy, culture and media exchanges, national security and global governance. 

 

Investigative journalists Sam Cooper and Terry Glavin are at the forefront of dozens of Canadian journalists who are warning Canadians that the strategic partnership with Beijing not only undermines Canadian sovereignty but also jeopardizes North American defence, 5-eyes intelligence alliance, and the CUSMA trade negotiations. Michael Kovrig, one of the “two Michaels” who were imprisoned in China for more than 1,000 days, has also been very vocal in his belief that “Mark Carney’s Beijing trade pivot is leading Canada toward a trap it may not be able to escape,” as recently reported in The Bureau. And with the American recognition that the Chinese Communist Party is the most urgent national security threat facing the U.S., there should be no question that the American administration now views Canada as a threat. 

 

For all his repetitive insistence of a New World Order, Americans are seeing through Carney’s globalist vision and Canadians are also beginning to piece it together. In the U.S., there were sharp criticisms of the Canadian prime minister’s performative statements in Armenia (and his Governor General selection). Susan Kokinda of Promethean Action broadcasted a mid-week report in which she connected the dots and stated the Canadian prime minister is trying to “come up with Globalism 2.0.” Kokinda stated, “Carney is not trying to save the old system. He is announcing its successor. And the United States is not on the list. Because what you saw was not a diplomatic trip. It was a rival power centre being put together in real time – a rules-based order 2.0 engineered to try and stop Donald Trump’s America. 

 

In the popular American news source Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden wrote “What Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is doing here is very dangerous, particularly for the Canadian people.” 

 

Canadian host of The Sovereign Sphere podcast Karla Treadway posted a must view video commentary that reports on Carney’s past positions and responsibilities, and his world view. In the segment entitled “The Real Reason Carney Wants Canada to Be a Part of the EU” Treadway assesses that Carney’s ambition extends far beyond national borders: 

“to coordinate through supranational institutions, bodies that sit above governments, bodies that aren’t elected, bodies like the one he spent his career building. So, when you see Carney running towards the EU and towards Beijing, the question isn’t ‘Is he just diversifying trade?’ Of course, he is diversifying trade. That’s the surface. The question is, ‘What kind of world is he trying to build and did anyone in Canada vote for it?’…. it tells you something about how he [Carney] thinks the world should work – not through nations making sovereign choices, not through democracy, but through institutions, frameworks and alliances setting the terms and nations falling into line.”

 

Canadian political commentator Jasmin Laine put it this way: “Why is our ‘sovereignty’ always tied to some foreign ‘imperative’ or ‘strategic partnership’ that costs us billions with little to no benefit to us, while our own productivity and economy stalls?… Everywhere else in the world, being a nation is a point of pride; in Ottawa, it’s treated like a hurdle to be cleared on the way to the next international summit. Canada isn’t a ‘post-national’ experiment—it’s a country. It’s time we started acting like it.”

 

Last word goes to the Canadian founder of Shopify, Tobi Lutke, who recently had a clip go viral in social media, where he complains that Canada needs to get back to basics and focus on growing our economy. 

 

As a final thought, as Lutke urges, let’s stop posturing on the world stages. It is clear that Carney’s vision of the New World Order has ramifications for Canadians’ national interests – so, we need to drop the TDS and focus on building our economy. It is time to hold the global-banker-turn-prime minister to account. Canadians need to begin asking questions of the prime minister and insisting on knowing the details of the behind-closed-door deals made with the EU and China. Or else… Carney’s vision of a New World Order may very well turn out to be Canada’s nightmare.