Canada's Conservative leader slams Trump's '51st state' idea [View all]

Source: The Hill

01/07/25 6:13 PM ET


Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, shot back at President-elect Trump’s idea of making his country America’s 51st state.

“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period. We are a great and independent country,” Poilievre wrote Tuesday in a statement on social platform X.

“We are the best friend to the U.S.,” he continued. “We spent billions of dollars and hundreds of lives helping Americans retaliate against Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. We supply the U.S. with billions of dollars of high-quality and totally reliable energy well below market prices. We buy hundreds of billions of dollars of American goods.”

Poilievre’s statement comes after Trump for weeks has publicly mused about the neighbor to the north becoming part of the United States.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5072858-canadas-conservative-leader-slams-trumps-51st-state-idea/