In his inaugural address as the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney defied US President Donald Trump’s threats of annexation and vowed to never let the country come under US occupation
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In his first speech as the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney has vowed to never let the nation become a part of the United States.
At a time when US President Donald Trump has waged an unprecedented economic and territorial aggression against Canada, Carney dubbed the treat to make Canada the 51st state of the United States “crazy”.
Canada “will never, ever, in any way, shape or form, be part of the United States”, said Carney.
Days after his election as the Leader of the Liberal Party,
Governor Mary Simon on Friday presided over a ceremony in which Carney and his 23 Cabinet ministers were sworn in. Carney, a former head of Bank of Canada and Bank of England, has taken over at a time when Canada Trump has mounted a tariff war to decimate Canada economically and has made it clear he wants to annex Canada and make it the 51st US state.
In the wake of Carney’s swearing-in, the Trump administration has not toned down its rhetoric. Just ahead of the swearing-in, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Canadian soil that Trump “loves Canada” and has simply “made an argument for why Canada would be better off joining the United States from an economic perspective and the like”. Rubio was in Canada for a meeting of G-7 nations.
Rubio added, “He’s made that argument repeatedly, and I think it stands for itself.”
Canadian leaders have maintained that Trump’s threats of annexation are not a joke. They have maintained that the trade war that Trump is pursuing on Ca