Amid a fractured trade relationship with the United States, Canada is turning eastward — toward Europe and the United Kingdom — in search of new partnerships grounded in shared democratic values and economic resilience. Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former central banker who has long championed coalitions of 'middle powers,' traveled to Brussels and Liverpool last week to give that vision concrete shape. The moment reflects something larger than a bilateral dispute: a quiet but consequential questioning of the post-war order that once made Washington the gravitational center of Western allianc