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“At a NATO leaders’ summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Mark Carney, described as the Prime Minister of Canada, turned his back on United States President Donald Trump and walked away while Trump was speaking, and the moment was captured on camera.”
Available evidence does not support the alleged on-camera snub in The Hague. NATO records and major reporting do not show Carney turning away from Trump mid-speech, and multiple independent fact-checks say the viral material was miscaptioned or edited. The claim depends on sensational reposts rather than verified summit footage.
“On or before April 27, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the activation of a sovereign clearing and settlement network developed with the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India that bypasses US dollar clearing entirely.”
No evidence supports this claim. The official Prime Minister of Canada website, major news outlets, and financial sector publications through late April 2026 contain no reference to any announcement of a multinational sovereign clearing and settlement network bypassing US dollar clearing. The specific coalition of partners named in the claim does not appear in any credible source. Existing Canadian payment modernization efforts are domestic in scope, and related multilateral projects involve different participants and do not bypass USD clearing.