{"id":2112,"date":"2025-03-03T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/evansfamilywealth\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2025-05-26T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:20:07","slug":"canada-can-thrive-in-changing-global-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/evansfamilywealth\/canada-can-thrive-in-changing-global-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News! How Canada Can Thrive in a Changing Global Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mount St. Helens Eruption, May 18, 1980 (Google images)<\/p>\n

The Pressure Builds: A Lesson from Mount St. Helens<\/span><\/h2>\n

The destruction of a mountain began with a tectonic plate sliding only 1 1\/2 inches a year.<\/p>\n

Year after year, the Juan de Fuca Plate crept beneath its continental neighbour, leaving voids that magma rushed to fill. Earthquakes punctuated the process, but on the surface, the mountain hardly seemed to notice\u2014inside the pressure was building.<\/p>\n

In March, a sudden swarm of quakes fractured new fissures, channelling even more magma upward. With each passing day, the north summit began to bulge, rising as much as 500 feet\u2014pushed higher by the incredible pressure of the magma. Imagine the force required to lift a mountain 500 feet! At 8:32 a.m. on May 18,1980, Mount St. Helens erupted.<\/p>\n

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Mount St. Helens before and after (Google images)<\/p>\n

The Global Economic Eruption: How MAGA Policies Are Reshaping the World<\/span><\/h2>\n

It turns out the global economic order isn\u2019t so different from Mount St. Helens. Instead of magma building pressure, the global economic order has erupted due to MAGA. It’s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n

The Liberal International Order (LIO) that was ushered in after the Second World War reached its apex with the collapse of the Soviet Union which heralded a unipolar world. In truth, scholars debate whether it ever actually existed\u2014pointing out that the United Nations and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights coexisted with contemporaneous covert CIA coups and proxy wars. Over the last 80 years, pressures have built, and the summit has swelled. For better or worse, the earthquake of the Trump presidency has caused an eruption. Canadian investors (and taxpayers) need to pay attention.<\/p>\n

“Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting didn’t wait for the final results of his country’s election on Sunday to herald a new era in Europe. Declaring the U.S. indifferent to this continent’s fate, Friedrich Merz questioned the future of NATO and demanded Europe boost its own defences. Quickly.” \u2014source.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Europe has gotten the message\u2014has Canada?<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Opportunities in a Changing Global Order<\/span><\/h2>\n

While the eruption of Mount St. Helens was a catastrophe which irrevocably changed the landscape\u2014it was not the end of the world. So too with the changing world order. Investors need to quickly pivot from outrage and disbelief to pragmatic realism. In a changing world, much of what Canada offers will continue to be in high demand. Consider the following:<\/p>\n