{"id":5635,"date":"2026-04-15T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/5635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:56:08","slug":"carney-and-stubb-two-centrist-dads-trying-to-save-the-world-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/5635\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney and Stubb: Two centrist dads trying to save the world\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid a tariff war with the U.S., Canada is showing what diversification of alliances really means. It already has a trade agreement with the EU, though not all 27 governments have ratified it yet. But this year alone Carney reached a major trade agreement with China and a clutch of new overarching deals with India, including a 10-year accord on nuclear energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Finnish president is bringing a delegation of more than 30 businesses to Canada this week: Companies from defense, maritime and mining industries will be making connections in Ottawa as the two leaders renew their discussions.<\/p>\n

Endurance\u00a0tests<\/p>\n

There are clearly limits, of course. Canada and Finland are medium and small countries, not superpowers, either economically or militarily. Their common values are clear, but the \u201crealism\u201d of their size is equally obvious.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To those who struggle to see much hope amid the global upheavals, Stubb suggests staying calm and behaving like a Finn: \u201cTake an ice bath, visit a sauna, and reflect,\u201d as he put it in the introduction to his book. He is an endurance athlete, and often propounds Finland\u2019s concept of resilience, or grit, using a word with no direct English translation: \u201cSisu.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the face of Trump\u2019s threats, Carney this month described how millions of small individual acts of solidarity \u2014 such as buying Canadian wine instead of imported bottles from California, or taking vacations in Canada rather than Florida \u2014 are renewing his country\u2019s strength. \u201cTogether they make a statement,\u201d Carney said<\/a>. \u201cWe are the masters of our destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

If destiny is also geography, the deepening friendship between Carney and Stubb may owe something to a sense of place. The towns of their birth, Fort Smith and Helsinki, lie on exactly the same latitude: 60 degrees North.<\/p>\n

Inhabitants of both must endure months of unforgiving cold, with winter temperatures falling below -20 degrees Celsius. And there is surely no more Finnish sentiment to be found anywhere in North America than the one-word motto of Carney\u2019s home town: \u201cPerseverence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid a tariff war with the U.S., Canada is showing what diversification of alliances really means. It already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[1218,364,3287,3288,3289,17,337,504,505,3290,376,1871,596,162,1651,1219,1090,508,928,200,1873,3291,111,587,435,510,3292,3293,897,3294,400,3295,401,3296,511,3297,403,30,3298,3299],"class_list":{"0":"post-5635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-alexander-stubb","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-baltics","11":"tag-books","12":"tag-brexit","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-companies","16":"tag-cooperation","17":"tag-crisis","18":"tag-davos","19":"tag-defense","20":"tag-diplomacy","21":"tag-donald-trump","22":"tag-energy","23":"tag-finland","24":"tag-golf","25":"tag-greenland","26":"tag-india","27":"tag-iran","28":"tag-keir-starmer","29":"tag-maritime","30":"tag-mark-carney","31":"tag-middle-east","32":"tag-mining","33":"tag-resilience","34":"tag-rob-jetten","35":"tag-russia","36":"tag-security","37":"tag-sport","38":"tag-tariffs","39":"tag-the-netherlands","40":"tag-trade","41":"tag-trade-agreements","42":"tag-transatlantic-relations","43":"tag-ukraine","44":"tag-united-kingdom","45":"tag-united-states","46":"tag-venezuela","47":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}