On Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said, during a meeting with Chinese diplomats in Beijing, that Canada's new partnership with China "sets us up well for the New World Order."The day after, Friday, the Prime Minister was asked to clarify these comments during a press conference after the announcement of the Canada-China tariff agreement."The world is still determining what that order is going to be," said the prime minister. "Let's be clear what we're talking about, first and foremost, which is what is going to govern global trade?".Carney then goes on to list a multitude of international agreements, organisations and partnerships that he says may be changed or upended in this new global trade environment."The architecture, the multilateral system, that has been developing these (international organisations, trade agreements, etc.) is being eroded, to use a polite term. Undercut.""So the question is what gets built in that place?'This answer could be interpreted as a shot at the American government, which Carney had earlier called "unpredictable" compared to the Chinese..This erosion of the multilateral system that he talks about can be directly attributed to the current American administration pulling out and disengaging from these trade agreements and global alliances due to the Trump administration's affinity towards protectionist and isolationist policies.
