Renewed verbal attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump are prompting Canadians to rally behind Prime Minister Mark Carney, who earned a rare standing ovation in Davos for openly decrying powerful nations using economic integration as weapons and tariffs as leverage.

US President Donald Trump used his Davos remarks on Wednesday to take a swipe at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's popular speech at the World Economic Forum the day before. "Canada gets a lot of freebies from us.

In his speech to this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney mourned the demise of international cooperation by evoking an authority from ancient Greece.

Trump claims the U.S. should control Greenland for Golden Dome missile defense, says Canada "lives because of the United States" in heated Davos remarks.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, about the need for "middle powers" -- countries other than the U.S., China, and Russia -- to band together to stand up as the "rules-based international order is fading.

He says those principles must be defended as authoritarianism extends its reach globally. This speech comes two days after Carney delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which called on middle powers to band together in a world of "great power" economic coercion.

Carney and his front benches are meeting behind closed doors at the Citadelle of Quebec — the Governor General's secondary home fortified in the 19th century in the effort to secure the city against a potential American attack — for two days starting Thursday for what's being described as a planning forum ahead of Parliament's return next week.

For most of his career, Mark Carney was the polished face of global cooperation, but on Tuesday at WEF 2026, that tone vanished. Less than a year into his term as Canada’s prime minister, Carney delivered a blunt assessment of global power politics: “the strong do what they can,