Posted on 02/08/2025 2:51:43 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President Donald Trump has for weeks suggested that Canada become the United States’ 51st state, and while opinion has been divided about whether Trump is serious or merely trolling its neighbor, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reportedly said that it’s the former, according to reports.
In a closed-door meeting with Canadian business and labor leaders, Trudeau reportedly affirmed that Trump’s ambitious aims of annexation are "a real thing."
"Mr. Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing. In my conversations with him on …" Trudeau said before the microphone cut out, according to CBC.
The news media had been asked to leave the room before Trudeau delivered his comments, but CBC and The Toronto Star were able to hear them and record them.
"I suggest that not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have, but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state," Trudeau added according to people in the room who listened to his comments. "They’re very aware of our resources, of what we have, and they very much want to be able to benefit from those."
Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labor, confirmed what Trudeau said in a post on social platform X.
"Yes, I can confirm that Trudeau said his assessment is that what Trump really wants is not action on fentanyl or immigration or even the trade deficit, what he really wants is to either dominate Canada or take it outright," McGowan wrote. "Tariffs are a tactic towards that end."
Trump first pitched the idea during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Trudeau in late November. Trump has also suggested annexing Greenland.
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Canada doesn’t exist and Trump is proving it.
Trudeau is ridiculous. Trump isn’t serious about making Canada a state, but he isn’t trolling either. He wants greater economic integration with Canada. Maybe even get them on the US dollar. No tariffs. Free trade. And stronger border security not between us and them but around all of North America. We can make movement of people and goods between the US and Canada free, without annexing the country, as long as Canada keeps itself secure - we basically guarantee their security anyway they can redirect more funds to their other borders and worry less about ours.
Sirius Lee.
I’d be happy with just having California become a legtitimate state.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
That’s gotta be up there with comments of the day :)
Sometimes it takes a thousand years for a week’s worth of change to occur, and sometimes it takes a week for a thousand years’ of change to occur.
Guess where we are?
This only says Trudeau believes it.
I imagine that was Trump’s goal, or he wouldn’t have said it.
It’s on the table now. Trump framed the negotiation.
Popcorn, anyone?
;)
Call it Alaska and get rid of Murkowski. Quebec-independence.
Ontario? Midwestern. Can’t go wrong.
I’m leaning against that idea. It would give the Ds 2 more votes in the senate.
It's a fun thought, however Canadians oppose it roughly 8-1 (Source: online Newsweak article).
And, it would add 2 likely left-leaning Sens, would it not?
Maybe then the Saskatchewan Roughriders can join the NFL.
Unless kanada has changed since I was there, we don’t want it. Not unless we can somehow deport the canucks to the EU.
Back then, the speculation was that each Canadian province would become a state, not that all of Canada would be one state.
A Canadian phoned in and said, "Why would Canadians want to become Americans even if Quebec seceded?
I've met many Canadians over the decades. One thing I've noticed is that -- liberal or conservative -- they are all proudly Canadian. None of them, not even the conservatives, want to become Americans.
That is so true.
Trudeau's family is from Montreal. So if Quebec becomes independent, rest of Canada is not so Leftist. They'll be a better fit for USA.
I really do NOT want a dysfunctional socialist nightmare for the 51st State. I’m sure President Trump is trolling and angling for a better trade position with Canaduh.
It’s the man-child’s way to ignore the opening of negotiations.
Definitely a perilous path for this loser.
Two more dem senators? No
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