Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has just returned from a trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he extracted a $70 billion investment pledge from the Gulf state. The funding is expected to include energy, AI logistics, mining and other strategic industries. Fed up with Donald Trump’s tariffs, Canada’s new government is on a mission to double non-US exports over the next decade and unleash $1 trillion in new investment in Canada over five years, according to a Nov. 21 press release. In conjunction with the UAE announcement,…