Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech on Tuesday at a plenary session at the World Economic Forum, the annual meeting of influential leaders in Davos, Switzerland.

The Canadian prime minister spoke after returning from the World Economic Forum where he urged middle powers to team up in resisting President Trump.

Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Switzerland on Monday to join the global power elite for the World Economic Forum in the ski resort town of Davos, where he's looking to drum up investment from other countries and corporations.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's call at the World Economic Forum for middle powers to band together against economic coercion by "great powers" is winning some cross-partisan support at home, and garnering attention all over the world.

The world order is changing but not enduring a rupture, finance leaders said on Friday, pushing back on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s narrative that a new order, driven by major power coercion, was taking shape.

Carney evoked the landmark 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless“ by former Czech freedom fighter Václav Havel, who eventually led the Velvet Revolution that led to free elections in his country in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall toppled the Soviet Union. Havel later received a hero’s welcome in Canada in 1999.

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Mark Carney warned of economic coercion, urging middle powers to unite as trade and finance became tools of pressure, not cooperation