by Sarah Fortinsky and The Hill
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.
On Tuesday, Trump said he was not considering using military force to make Canada become part of the United States but instead intended to use “economic force” against the close U.S. ally.
Poilievre, a likely contender to become the next prime minister,…
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