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Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, says that after decades of integrating with America, “that process is over”. He spoke to The Economist ahead of his meeting with Donald Trump today about plans to liberalise and stimulate Canada’s economy at home and to strike deals with like-minded countries abroad. But that will take time, and the Trump shock is here already. Watch a
preview of our interview;
the full version will be available from
Economist Insider
on Thursday at 7pm BST.
And America has long worried about the Russians getting ahead, in anything. “We must not allow a mine-shaft gap!” bellowed a general in the 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove”. Today it is
the icebreaker gap
that worries American planners. Russia has many; America has three (that work). Influence in the Arctic beckons—but only Finland can make the ships America needs to win it. | 
