OTTAWA — President Donald Trump has an Election Day message for Canadians: The Canada-U.S. border is synthetic, and you need to change into the 51st state.
“Good luck to the Nice folks of Canada,” Trump stated on Fact Social at 8:36 a.m. ET on Monday as polls in components of the nation have been opening, touchdown on the morning of one of the vital consequential elections in many years.
“No extra artificially drawn line from a few years in the past. Look how lovely this land mass could be,” he stated.
It was not really clear which Canadian chief Trump was favoring together with his newest submit.
The Liberals beneath Mark Carney maintain a single-digit ballot lead over the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, after a hard-fought, five-week marketing campaign. They clashed over who was finest suited to guard Canada from Trump’s financial threats of punitive tariffs and annexation taunts.
Poilievre has argued that when Trump talks concerning the 51st state, he’s attempting to prop up Carney so the president can face what Conservatives say can be a weak Liberal authorities going ahead.
Carney has argued that solely he has the mettle to confront Trump — pointing to crisis-management expertise on his resume from serving to to steer Canada by the 2008 recession as its central financial institution governor to managing the fallout of Brexit because the U.Okay.’s central banker.
Greater than 7 million Canadians voted upfront polls forward of Election Day.
Carney and Trump spoke March 28 in a name throughout which the prime minister initially stated the president has revered Canadian sovereignty. Canadians seemed to be having fun with a reprieve from Trump’s anti-Canadian bluster, till Carney clarified final week that the president did in reality elevate the 51st state through the name.
Carney dismissed questions on why he’d failed to say that in his authentic readout, arguing that Trump was simply being Trump, and that the tone was typically optimistic.
Trump’s Monday morning submit shredded any illusions that Trump was reducing Canada any slack.
“Elect the person who has the energy and knowledge to chop your taxes in half, improve your army energy, free of charge, to the very best stage within the World, have your Automotive, Metal, Aluminum, Lumber, Power, and all different companies, QUADRUPLE in dimension, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada turns into the cherished 51st. State of the US of America,” Trump wrote Monday.
Trump’s choose for ambassador, Michigan Republican Pete Hoekstra, arrives in Ottawa on Tuesday — stepping right into a submit already overshadowed by his boss’ on-line bombshell.
On the heels of Trump’s intervention, his new ambassador to Canada, the veteran Michigan lawmaker Pete Hoekstra, will arrive in Ottawa on Tuesday.