This week, Townhall covered how outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to President-elect Donald Trump’s comments about making Canada part of the United States.
“There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” Trudeau wrote on X.
“Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner,” he added.
There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 7, 2025
Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner.
Later this week, Canada’s finance and intergovernmental affairs minister, Dominic LeBlanc, piled on.
“The joke is over,” LeBlanc claimed. “It’s a way for him, I think, to sow confusion, to agitate people, to create chaos knowing this will never happen.”
“It’s becoming very counterproductive,” LeBlanc added, according to ABC.
After Trump won reelection, he told Trudeau that if he does not like the tariffs he will impose, then Canada should become the 51st state.
LeBlanc is now working with the United States on border security efforts (via ABC):
LeBlanc has been talking to incoming Trump Cabinet officials about a billion-dollar plan to increase border security in an effort to deflect Trump's threat of tariffs.
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Trump initially threatened to impose tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada and Mexico do not stem the flow of migrants and fentanyl from crossing the U.S. border — even though far fewer of each enters the U.S. from Canada than from Mexico.
According to Reuters, LeBlanc on Wednesday said he would not run in the race to be leader of the ruling Liberal Party in the wake of Trudeau's announcement he was stepping down.