Carney: a new vision for Canada?

### Mark Carney: A New Vision for Canada

Is Mark Carney beginning to articulate a new vision for Canada—or simply responding pragmatically to a changing world?
At Davos, Carney argued that the old international order is not coming back and that Canada must build greater strategic autonomy. Since then, the deteriorating economic relationship with the United States has accelerated a fundamental reconsideration of where Canada belongs in the global economy.
Carney is looking increasingly toward Europe and other global partners, seeking to diversify Canada's trade, investment, energy, technology and security relationships. This week he travels to Strasbourg to address the European Parliament and attend the EU's State of the Union address, as Canada moves toward a much closer strategic relationship with Europe.
Is this simply economic necessity—or the beginning of a different conception of Canada's place in the world?
What does Canadian economic independence actually mean? Can we reduce our dependence on the United States without sacrificing the enormous advantages of that relationship? And could Canada reposition itself not as America's junior economic partner, but as an independent middle power with a much broader network of relationships?

Let's talk about what is actually changing and where this new direction might take us.