Acres of bad op-eds and half of Aaron Sorkin's career notwithstanding, political speeches, even of the highly anticipated variety, almost never matter and are typically forgotten by light of morning.
Not so Tuesday's Davos downer from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. With the ashen-faced delivery of an insurance adjuster explaining why a claim can't be paid, Carney, the Liberal successor to Justin Trudeau, pronounced that the entire America-led post-World War II international system was experiencing a "rupture, not a transition," and that we'd best get on with it.
