Thus critics of Trump have an easy time of it. Trump has demonstrated preternatural skill in utterly dominating a sufficient sector of the American electorate to keep him in power. That’s why Carney reached for the inspiring, if not precisely apt, example of Vaclav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless. It is not true that “Canada lives because of the United States,” as Trump says, but it is true that Canada lives beside the United States, and we are more vulnerable for that reason to his depredations. It was winter in Davos, but Carney was the boy who pointed out that the would-be emperor was naked.

Source: National Post January 24, 2026 11:39 UTC