Canada is not amused
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that Canada should become the 51st state are no longer a joke and are meant to undermine America’s closest ally, Canada’s finance minister said Wednesday.
Dominic LeBlanc, the country’s point person for U.S-Canada relations, said Trump was smiling when he first made the comment during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in late November.
“The joke is over,” said LeBlanc. “It’s a way for him, I think, to sow confusion, to agitate people, to create chaos knowing this will never happen.””
https://apnews.com/article/canada-trump-us-state-131dcff58a8f56116765f160d9f35460
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Canada's outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told a group of business leaders he believes President Donald Trump might be serious about annexing his country.
Trudeau suggested Trump has floated the idea of taking over Canada and making it the "51st state" because he wants to access the country's critical minerals.
"Mr Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing," the prime minister said.
His comments were made behind closed doors at a Canada-US Economic Summit in Toronto, but were captured in part by a microphone and were reported on by several Canadian media outlets.
The summit was attended by more than 100 business leaders and public policy experts, and was hosted by the Canadian government's newly created advisory council on Canada-US relations. -
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Mostly Texas and Florida.
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https://apple.news/A2DPyP9XrR9uY05mKJbVMwg
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“Eric Yu stood in the aisle of a grocery store, looking at the label of a pasta sauce he would have simply grabbed and put in his cart, almost without thinking, until last week. But now he looked closely at the label, and when he saw the sauce was made in the United States, he put it back on the shelf.
“I think, as a Canadian, it’s almost our duty. It’s an extremely small thing to do, but we have to do this in protest,” said Mr. Yu, who lives in Markham, Ont. “One person doing this will not make a difference, but if we’re all doing this, I think that’s going to at least allow our voices to be heard.”
Mr. Yu’s voice is one among a rapidly rising chorus that has swelled across the country, in the wake of President Donald Trump’s threats of sweeping tariffs and repeated mentions of making Canada “the 51st State.”
“I think there’s a lot of Canadian pride, and there’s a lot of anger toward the U.S. right now,” said Mr. Yu, who said he also rerouted a foreign trip to a non-American airline, and would not be travelling to the United States.
“I’m trying to make my voice heard through what I purchase and things I do.”
In recent days, there has been a marked surge of national pride and patriotism – coupled with a strong desire to support and protect Canadian interests – as Canadians navigate a shocking change in relationship with the country’s long-standing ally, trading partner and vacation destination.” … -
Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, and the rest of our former partners and allied countries should band together and declare war on the United States, seize power, and then turn us into a democratic socialist state. Please! And hurry up!
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Don't you want a united free democratic world that works as a harmonious whole serving the good of all people?
Put aside innate tribal nationalistic thoughts, join together to create a harmonious superdupercountry?BTW I voted yay for Brexit as did the Mrs, while our two kids voted nay.
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Too many people flooding in to take advantage of our NHS and benefit system.
Imagine if Turkey joined and their millions could enter our job market. We'd already had an influx of Albanians and Roumanians.
And we are already a very multi ethnic society.We knew all the money supposedly to be saved by not being a member was rubbish. We knew that businesses would suffer. We knew there was and still is no clear plan.
