Mark Carney cuts straight to the heart of a harsh reality: you can't pretend integration serves mutual interests when the outcome is actually designed to lock you into a subordinate position. The lie gets exposed when you realize the entire "partnership" framework was rigged from the start. Once integration becomes the mechanism of your own dependency rather than shared growth, the mask slips. What looks like cooperation on the surface conceals an asymmetric power structure underneath. The real question isn't whether integration happens—it's whether you're participating as an equal or being absorbed into someone else's system. This tension between the promise of interconnected prosperity and the practice of structural inequality defines much of contemporary economic debate.