At the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January, Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a blunt warning about a changing world order and laid out how countries like Canada should respond.
In his speech, Carney called for a reformed international system, stronger cooperation among "middle powers" like Canada, EU countries and Australia, a system based on shared rules, economic stability and coordinated governance, and less reliance on any single dominant power.
Then at the National Liberal Party Convention in Montreal last weekend, Diana Carney took time to praise her husband's anti-American speech.
"I have been told of university students already being required to read my husband's now quite famous Davos speech, of intergenerational dinner table conversations being sparked by its contents, of new possibilities opening up in its wake, of Canada being the nation that is helping to define and shape a new world order," she said.
"She is very caustic," Dr. Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College, notes about the first lady. "She works for a far-left organization called the Eurasia Group, and they advance leftist policies, very much in tune with George Soros. She is horrifically anti-American."
Diana Carney is a policy expert who has worked on sustainability and development issues. Her public commentary tends to emphasize multilateral cooperation, climate policy and global governance, and she is generally critical of U.S. policies and actions.
The Eurasia Group, a global risk-analysis firm that advises businesses and governments, regards the U.S. as the world's most important geopolitical player but is often critical of its decisions.
Dr. McVety is concerned about Diana Carney trumpeting her husband's goals, which are catching on in elite policy and diplomatic circles.
"She's very proud of her husband because he is forming the new world order. These are very scary, scary words coming out of the wife of the prime minister," Dr. McVety asserts. "Her words are unfortunately true: that is what he is attempting to do."
Meanwhile, in what McVety calls a disastrous night for his country, Mark Carney's Liberal Party recently obtained enough seats in Parliament to be a majority party.
"I'm afraid for my country," he tells AFN.
