Prime Minister Mark Carney says great powers are using ‘economic integration as weapons’
‘The old order is not coming back,’ Carney says in provocative speech at Davos
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based international order is over and middle powers like Canada must pivot to avoid falling prey to further “coercion” from powerful actors.
Source CBC News
Court Painter, in a burst of enthusiastic entrepreneurship, grabbed a series of quotes from Prime Minister Carney’s historic Davos speech and got busy in the studio, screen-printing some of the Prime Minister’s favourites.
The Court Painter marketing strategy will be aimed squarely at Middle Power customers.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump first published in 2017
US Supreme Court Enablers
The following video was broadcast on October 6,2017, over 8 years ago.
1,947,958 views Oct 6, 2017
In the book, 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess President Donald Trump’s behavior. Do his impulses explain his decisions? The book’s editor Dr. Brandy Lee and Tony Schwartz, co-author of Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” join Lawrence O’Donnell.
Fast Forward to January 2026.
On Sunday,January 18,2026 President of the United States, Donald J Trump wrote a letter to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre. The White House National Security Council distributed the text of the letter to foreign ambassadors in Washington.
Dear Jonas,
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.
Thank you! President DJT
Gahr Støre responded;
“Norway’s position on Greenland is clear. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Norway fully supports the Kingdom of Denmark on this matter.As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have clearly explained, including to president Trump what is well known, the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel Committee and not the Norwegian Government.”
According to a well-connected source, the Court Painter diplomatically relayed through back channels , advice to Prime Minister Carney to avoid former prime minister Trudeau’s penchant for drawing undue attention to himself while visiting foreign destinations. Trudeau’s famous fashion bomb was an effort to blend in during his 2018 trip to India. (seen here with fashion coach Court Painter who was subsequently fired while Trudeau has moved on to date celebrity Katy Perry)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and fashion coach Court Painter Feb. 20, 2018.
So following Trudeau’s fashion overstatement and with Carney’s ascension , never say die fashion coach Court Painter took another run at it by boldly suggested a wardrobe power suit solution for Carney’s current journey to China: fashionable, yet decidedly understated; guaranteed to land a deal!
Editor’s note: In the play Hamlet, the pompous, fastidious Polonius proclaims:
“The apparel oft proclaims the man”
Fashion at work!
Prime Minister Carney and President Xi secured a preliminary agreement-in-principle with landmark measures to remove trade barriers and reduce tariffs:
By March 1, 2026, Canada expects that China will lower tariffs on Canadian canola seed to a combined rate of approximately 15%. China is a $4 billion canola seed market for Canadian producers, and this change represents a significant drop from current combined tariff levels of approximately 85%.
Canada expects that Canadian canola meal, lobsters, crabs, and peas will not be subject to relevant anti-discrimination tariffs from March 1, 2026, until at least the end of this year.
Together, these results will help unlock nearly $3 billion in export orders for Canadian workers and businesses as they realise the full potential of the massive Chinese market of 1.4 billion people.
Finally, to build on this momentum, Canada has set an ambitious goal to increase exports to China by 50% by 2030. To achieve this outcome, Prime Minister Carney and President Xi discussed increasing two-way investment in clean energy and technology, agri-food, wood products, and other sectors.
In the glittering, gilded halls of the newly branded Trump Kennedy Centre, all attention is irrevocably fixed upon Chairman of the Board DJ Trump, in a move of unparalleled audacity and celestial self-humbling, has crowned himself Resident Playwright and Star Performer, dazzling MAGA mortals under the sublime nom de scène ICEDON. With the brilliant and ever-for hire Chatterley Grandiose Penelope Thereafter (ChatGPT) at his dramaturgical playmate, on loan from the venerable Court Painter Studio; he unveils Waiting for Nobel, a Beckett inspired one person production so singularly resplendent, so singularly incandescent, that even Putin himself might pause in admiration. A previous dramatic attempt, notably the tragically overcrowded The ICEDON Cometh, is now but a whisper in the corridors of thespian history, for no mere troupe of actors may hope to rival the solitary hulking majesty of ICEDON, whose every gesture, pause, and weaving utterances transform the staging of Waiting for Nobel into a throne of adulation , the limelight into a halo, and the very air into a pure unadulterated gasp of bottomless want!
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Waiting for Nobel
Please note only ICEDON appears on stage.The reporter is offstage as a disembodied voice.
ICEDON
She’s coming.
PAUSE
A woman. A prize. Peace— weighty & round.
PAUSE
Tuesday. Or Wednesday. A winner’s day.
PAUSE
I am the country. And it is me. It knows.
PAUSE
Venezuela waits. They know how. They almost didn’t.
Thomas Paine from a 47-page pamphlet Common Sense , published in Philadelphia 1776
Source of portrait : Thomas Paine oil painting by Laurent Dabos, circa 1791.NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON
“…some [dictator] may hereafter arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and the discontented, and by assuming to themselves the powers of government, may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.”
Source: Thomas Paine from a 47-page pamphlet Common Sense , published in Philadelphia 1776
Thomas Paine was an England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to international acclaim, “Common Sense” was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence.
“These are the times that try men’s souls”. Thomas Paine
ICEDON
“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” — U.S. President Donald Trump, when asked if there are any limits on his global powers.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Halifax on Saturday during a stopover before heading to the U.S. to meet with President Donald Trump for talks aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
Prime Minister Carney also announced an additional $2.5 billion of economic aid
Trump announces he spoke with Putin in advance of meeting President Zelenskyy
The strangest thing, he believes, is absence of strangeness.
Nobody wants to make waves—or even trickles. Conformity is the flavor of the month, and it tastes the same every month.
2026 may be the year the former weirdo and cosplay conscious video personality, the Nelson Auteur, makes a comeback—(if Ted Gioia is right about weirdos returning).
You, the most blessed subscribers out there in the ether… be the judge. As a public service, our technical team here at the Court Painter studio has assembled a selected small sampling of Nelson Auteur interviews and conversations from 2012–15.
INTRODUCTION:
The Nelson Auteur was a breath of fresh air for a video cottage industry stifled by the production values, professional standards, and mega-bucks of “Big Video” and its overly skilled art college graduates—all years before the AI introduction of “Slop!”
The Nelson Auteur raised creative thievery to new heights as the central feature of his oeuvre. The markers of his auteurish ways are evident in his rapacious pillaging of others’ words, phrases, inflections, and images. He insists his on-camera performances are highly choreographed and tightly scripted, utilizing the advanced iMovie 5 edit tools to create videos for the modern world. These have been described by an unknown Calgary art celebrity-for-hire as “Exquisite miniature costume dramas for shut-ins.”
Most of the Auteur’s videos are extensively researched adaptations, swiping vocals from the flotsam and jetsam of YouTube. He took pride in his contribution to the 21st century’s celebration of unstoppable opinion and contextual distortion.
His themes take up the neglected “grand narratives” of the 21st century: blather, nonsense, stupidity, the absurd, colonized word wars, and talent in absentia. His celebration of the long-winded is a trope evident throughout his more important works.
A noted Calgary art celebrity-for-hire has been misquoted as saying, “He was never afraid to let an absence of talent get in the way of blind ambition.”
This blessed, deaf-to-criticism ambition was underwritten by a one computer production company Nelson Auteur Promotions Unlimited, established in 2012 from a third-floor walk-up on Baker Street in Nelson, B.C.
The video site went weirdly dark in 2024 after failing to work for many years.
Some might argue Carney has no choice but to accept the New Trump Order of things. That he needs to keep his head low, and eliminate programs to protect people, the environment, and climate, in his efforts to defend Canada against Trump’s rampage. They might claim this explains why Carney is leaning so far to the right, and why Canadians need to keep cutting Carney more and more slack.
But there’s another possible explanation that bears consideration.
Is Carney using the pretext and cover Trump provides to weaken the very democratic institutions and protections he is claiming to defend from the despicable despot to the south, to serve the interests of big-money players in the powerful financial, tech, fossil fuel, extractive, and nuclear industries?
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Canada’s environment and climate policies – as tentative as they were at the best of times – are in tatters. It’s starting to look as if Carney has decided Canada should follow Trump’s lead and join the race to the bottom by accelerating all the activities and strengthening all the systems that are harming the planet and humanity, posing existential risks.
That is not standing up to Trump. It’s caving to him.
Canadians believed Carney when he promised to take on Trump, protect them, and defend Canada, elbows up.
Court Painter called upon the resident scribe, Chatterly Hellcat Punchy Thunderstrike (ChatGPT), to pen a soliloquy-style summation of the headlines leading the news in the Great Dominion on December 16, 2025.
Court Painter inserted images from his vast wearhouse of unsold images to disturb and delight.
Alas, what age is this, wherein mere words Are thought sufficient salves for ancient hate? To damn antisemitism with the tongue Is needful, yes—but emptier than breath Unless the deed attends the pious sound.
For mark me well: this is not yesteryear, Not fifteen’s spring, when oil was sin alone. See Carney turn his face toward the well, Yet lo, the people do not turn from him; The times have shifted, and so hearts adjust.
And should the Liberals, wise in quiet craft, Not keep Sir Pierre within their daily sight? For oft an adversary, loud and rash, Doth serve his foe more sweetly than a friend.
Read on, good soul, if thou wouldst grasp the truth Of Trump’s design, the shadowed plot ahead; What seems a boast may yet a blueprint be, A kingdom mapped in tweets and iron will.
Consider too whom Canada shall send To speak his mind across the southern line: An envoy’s tongue may weigh more in the scale Than many ministers who warm their chairs.
Drip follows drip, as water wears the stone, So Poilievre, with each impatient thrust, Bestows upon the Liberals a crown He never meant to set upon their brows.
And see how awkward stands Dame Smith this hour, Who lifts a cup to hail an MOU, Whilst Pierre, with casual wave, doth cast aside The pact she praises—leaving discord bare.
O politics, thou stage of clashing wills, Where every word is seed, each pause a plot, And players, blind to echoes of their speech, Do write their foes’ success with their own lines.
