The POTUS issued Carney with a devastating ultimatum

Donald Trump has warned Canadian PM Mark Carney that his country would be ‘devoured’ if it goes ahead with a foreign trade deal.

His comments come after Carney took to the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 20 January to slam Trump’s controversial effort to acquire Greenland.

He said: “It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.

“On Arctic sovereignty, we stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark, and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland’s future.

“Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland and calls for focused talks to achieve our shared objectives of security and prosperity in the Arctic.

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”

He called for ‘middle powers’ like Canada to ‘stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together’.

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