Despite being the president Donald Trump’s Canada’s interest in becoming the 51st state is not being sold by Canada, according to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Trump regularly says he wants Canada becomes a US statealong with discussions regarding the acquisition of Greenland and the Panama Canal for security purposes. However, the issue is not open to negotiations, Carney said.
“I’ve met Canadian owners over the course of the campaign over the past few months, and it’s not on sale,” Carney said Tuesday at the White House. “We’ve never been for sale, but opportunities are partnerships and things we can build together. We’ve done that in the past. Part of that is about our security, as the president said, and my government is committed to changing the step-by-step investment in Canada’s security and partnership.”
Trump acknowledged Canada is stepping up its investment in military security, but said he would “never say” in response to Canada becoming a different province.
Carney then said Canada’s attitude towards the issue remains unchanged.
“To my respectfully, Canadians’ views on this will not change in the 51st province,” Carney said.
The interaction is to “lose” the US when it argued about the possibility of becoming part of US Trump, and to Time’s Eric Corteressa, the US “loses” the money that supports Canada, and the only solution on the table is to become a nation.
“We’re looking after their troops,” Trump told the magazine. “We take care of every aspect of their life and don’t need them to build cars for us. In fact, we don’t want them to build cars. We want to build our own cars. We don’t need their wood. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything from Canada.
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