Jim Chalmers says Canadian PM’s ‘stunning’ denunciation of Trump is being widely discussed in Australian government

Jim Chalmers has praised Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s speech in Davos, saying: ‘The powerful point that he made is that a lot of the old certainties are breaking down.’ Photograph: Dominic Giannini/AAP

Jim Chalmers has described the Canadian prime minister’s passionate denunciation of Donald Trump’s assault on the global rules-based order as a “stunning speech” that was being “widely shared and discussed” inside the government.

At this week’s annual gathering at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mark Carney said “we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition”.