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‘Snowball’s chance in hell’: Trudeau responds to Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he was resigning. He will remain until the next party leader is elected.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” in the face of continuing threats of annexation by President-elect Donald Trump in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Tuesday.
The statement comes a day after Trudeau announced that he would be resigning from office when a new Liberal party leader is chosen.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada with the latest instance coming Tuesday when he said that he wanted to acquire the U.S.’s northern neighbor with “economic force.”
“Canada and the United States ‒ that would really be something. You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security,” Trump said.
In the post Trudeau said that both countries benefit from being each other’s security partner.
Other Canadian leaders push back
Leaders from across the Canadian political spectrum renounced Trump’s threats Tuesday.
“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period,” Pierre Poilivere, the Conservative Party leader who is likely to become Prime Minister after Canada’s October election, said in a post on X. “We are a great and independent country.”
The sentiment was echoed by Liberal Mélanie Joy, Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, in a post on X Tuesday.
“President-elect Trump’s comments show a complete lack of understanding of what makes Canada a strong country,” Joy said. “Our economy is strong. Our people are strong. We will never back down in the face of threats.”
Trump doesn’t rule out military use in Greenland, Panama Canal
Trump refused to rule out using military coercion in other parts of the world, namely Greenland and the Panama Canal, during his press conference Tuesday.
“No, I can’t assure you of either of those two,” Trump said of the Danish territory and Panamanian shipping causeway. “But I can say this: We need them for economic security. The Panama Canal was built for our military.”
The President-elect called the Carter-era deal for the canal “disgusting” and claimed that the U.S. needed Greenland for national security purposes.
“There is a lot of support among the people of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be in the future either,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in an interview on Danish television Tuesday.
This story has been updated to include new information
Contributing: Joey Garrison, Fernando Cervantes Jr.
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