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President Donald Trump is continuing to suggest that Canada could divest itself of its’ own sovereignty and join the United States as the 51st American state over the continued objections of Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney.
Carney, whose Liberal Party cruised to a victory over the rival Conservatives in last month’s parliamentary elections in part thanks to widespread disgust at Trump’s suggestion that Canada could be annexed as well as the trade war the U.S. president started against the longtime American ally, visited the Oval Office on Tuesday for his first-ever meeting with his U.S. counterpart.
Speaking in the Oval Office alongside Trump, he called the American leader “transformational” and praised his “relentless focus on the American worker” and efforts at “securing your borders ... ending the scourge of fentanyl and other opioids and and securing the world.”
But when Trump was pressed on whether he still would like Canada to become part of the U.S., he refused to drop the line.
“I do feel it's much better for Canada, but we're not going to be discussing that unless somebody wants to discuss it,” he said.
Trump, who has been divorced twice and has a long history of failing to remain faithful to his spouses, added that Canada becoming part of the United States “would really be a wonderful marriage.”
Carney, responding to Trump invoking his own background as a real estate developer while discussing why he would like to erase the longstanding U.S.-Canada border, told him that “there are some places that are not for sale” and said Canada remains one of those places.
“Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign over the last several months, it's not for sale. It won't be for sale ever, but the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together,” he said.
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