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Mark Carney: “Compliance will not buy safety.”

Featuring: Mark Carney, Liberal | Prime Minister of Canada | International

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PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos – January 20, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 23:47

That they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable. A country that can't feed … Compliance will not buy safety. … A world of fortresses will be poorer. More fragile and less sustainable. And there's another truth. If great powers abandon even the pretense. Of rules and values for the unhindered. (23:47–23:52)

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Asserts that simply complying with powerful entities does not guarantee security or safety.

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