Canada should be the 51st state
President-elect Donald Trump publicly embraced his thought to make Canada the ’51st state’ Tuesday by posting a picture of himself standing next to a Canadian flag overlooking a mountain range captioning it, ‘Oh Canada!’
Fox News reported Monday night that Trump had floated to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during their Friday meeting that Canada become the ’51st state’ if the country couldn’t afford the Republican’s proposed 25 percent tariffs.
Trudeau reportedly told Trump he cannot levy that large of an import tax on the US’s northern neighbor because it would completely kill the Canadian economy.
The president-elect then suggested to Trudeau that Canada become the 51st state, which caused the prime minister and others at the table to laugh nervously, Fox’s sources said.
On Tuesday, Dominic LeBlanc, a Canadian cabinet minister clarified that Trump’s comment was a ‘joke’ and was taken that way at the dinner table, according to the Toronto Star.
LeBlanc was on hand at the Florida dinner. When asked by reporters if Trump thought Canada was a joke LeBlanc replied, ‘Not at all, not at all.’
‘That was not the context at all,’ he said. ‘In a three-hour social evening at the president’s residence in Florida on a long weekend of American Thanksgiving, the conversation was going to be lighthearted.’
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