DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 20: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum on January 20, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
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US President Donald Trump has withdrawn his invitation to Canada to join his “Peace Council” after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos address warned against economic pressure from the world’s superpowers.
“Dear Prime Minister Carney: This letter is to let you know that the Peace Council is withdrawing its invitation to you due to Canada’s accession,” Trump said Thursday night in the state on Truth Social.
Carney said this last week intended to enter the board but details, including financial terms, were still to be worked out. States in need of a permanent place 1 billion dollars must be paid.
In it Speaking at the World Economic Forum in DavosSwitzerland, earlier this week Carney said the world’s “middle powers” must unite to resist coercion by the world’s biggest powers.
“Great powers have begun to use economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to exploit,” he said.
Although Carney didn’t name any countries, Trump later responded outside the forum, saying, “Canada lives because of the United States of America. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make a statement.”
A few hours before Carney’s speech, Trump said published on social networks Digitally modified image of a map with Greenland, Venezuela and Canada overlaid with the American flag.
Recent events have shown that the “rules-based international order” is practically dead, and the world’s superpowers are “using economic integration as a coercive weapon to pursue their own interests,” Carney said in his speech.
Relations between the two longtime allies have been severely strained during Trump’s second term, which has designated the neighboring country as the 51st US state and has also targeted it with tariffs.
US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House on October 7, 2025 in Washington, US.
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The “Peace Council,” chaired by Trump, was originally created to oversee the demilitarization and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after a two-year war with Israel. But Trump said he envisions the board taking on a broader role that could rival that of the United Nations, which has worried several U.S. allies.
Trump has received support from regional Middle Eastern countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as developing economies such as Indonesia.
But there are few global powers and traditional Western allies of the US was very carefulincluding Australia, France, Germany, Italy and some rejected the proposal. This was announced by Yvette Cooper, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain “will not be one of the signatories” Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern over the invitation to join.
Among them are Russia and China invited to participate in the council. Putin reported Russia’s foreign ministry told the Security Council it was still studying the proposal, and China has not confirmed it will join.
Carney’s WEF address followed a high-profile visit to China last week, where he negotiated a wide-ranging deal to lower tariffs and restore ties with Xi Jinping.
Beijing as part of the deal reduced customs duties on a number of agricultural products from Canada, and Ottawa has increased its import quota of Chinese electric vehicles into its market, with a 6.1% most-favored-nation tariff rate.
Carney hailed his strategic partnership with Xi, underscoring the importance of their ties in the face of a “new world order” in a veiled reference to global instability caused by Trump’s foreign policy swings and broken trade agenda.