Vocabulary
"Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity."
The power of a country to control its own government.
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Mention the feature present in the next fragment:
"They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms.”
Use of triplets
What global superpower is Canada moving away from?
The United States
"This is not naive multilateralism."
Process of organizing cooperation between three or more states to achieve common goals, guided by shared principles rather than just shared interests.
WTO
World Trade Organization
A common feature in political speeches is the use of the modal verb "shall" to express obligation or duty. True or false?
False. This feature is usually common in legal language.
What kind of global power is Canada?
Middle power
"But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness."
A state that possesses dominant influence or authority over others: hegemony.
ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Which rethorical device is used in the next sentence: "A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable.”
An oxymoron.
What other speech has Carney's been compared with?
Churchill's "Fulton Speech"
"On AI, we are cooperating with like-minded democracies to ensure we will not ultimately be forced to choose between hegemons and hyperscalers."
Massive-scale cloud service providers that offer extensive computing, storage, and networking infrastructure to businesses and individuals globally.
SAFE
Security Action for Europe
We mentioned two features very useful to address a specific audience - Canadians. Which ones?
The use of French + English and the repetition of Canada and Canadians
Name the concept that is equivalent to "pragmatic" regarding Canada's foreign policy
Realpolitik
"[...] the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate."
A perspective that views social interactions and relationships as a series of reciprocal exchanges or negotiations (a "give and take") driven by mutual benefit and immediate results.
COP
Conference of the Parties (UN Climate Change Conference)
Mention all the features present in this fragment:
"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...”
- Use of inclusive we
- Parallelism
- References to the here and now "every day"
Name the author and book Carney uses in his "sign in the window" metaphor
The Power of the Powerless - Václav Havel