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The 51st state? Is Trump’s threat to annex Canada real?
The Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that President Donald Trump’s threat to Canadian sovereignty is no joke. Justin Trudeau hosted an economic summit on Friday to discuss the threat of US terrorists. He addressed hundreds of businesses and labor leaders in Toronto pushing to improve free trade inside Canada.
Justin Trudeau had decided to make a peculiar public announcement but has ordered to turn off the cameras and phones in this room. As official cameras were turned off, Justin Trudeau has made the comment only for people in the room.
It was weird and looked naive expecting people to follow his orders. This situation looks very suspicious. Probably he wanted his comment to look like a top secret news that unexpectedly (!!!) spreads around.
Trudeau said that Trump’s threat to annex Canada is real and motivated by this country’s critical minerals. That was exactly what he has said: “ I suggest that only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have but that maybe even why, they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state.” “Mr.Trump has in his mind that one of the easiest ways of doing that is absorbing our country. And it is a real thing”
The reaction to the Trudeau announcement among the business leaders was obvious:
Steven MacKinnon (Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Minister): “The message I want to say to Canadians – this Country is strong. Don’t screw with us!”
Anita Anand (Transport and Internal Trade Minister): “There will be no messing with the 49th parallel period.”
Melanie Joly (Foreign Affairs Minister): “We will never be a state and will never be a colony.”
Dominic LeBlanc (Finance Minister): “The US President was teasing us”.
In spite of the fact that Donald Trump told: “We don’t need them”, meaning Canada, in reality they do. The US relies heavily on Canada’s critical minerals. 60% of its nickel supply needed for steel comes to USA from Canada. Also 30% of its uranium used for nuclear energy and almost 80% of its potash needed for farming come to USA from Canada.
Trump’s apparent interest in Canada’s vast resources raises more questions about what’s behind the proposed tariffs and whether border security and the flow of offensionals are really the motivation.
David McGuinty (Public Safety Minister): “The best assertion of our sovereignty is a Strong Border and that’s what we are doing.”
Recalling previous Trudeau’s statements regarding becoming another US state was “not going to happen.” “Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian. One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we’re not American,” he told in one of his interviews in early January.
“President Trump, who is a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that, by that conversation, to take away from the conversation around 25% tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and steel and aluminum and lumber and concrete,” Trudeau said in the CNN interview.
After a call with Trump, Trudeau said Canada would be implementing its previously announced $1.3 billion border plan, as well as committing to appointing a “fentanyl czar” and listing cartels as terrorists.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in his interview to CNN correspondent that Donald Trump should blame Mexico and China but not Canada for the fentanyl flow to USA. Trudeau is appointed ‘fentanyl czar’ after Trump pauses U.S. tariffs. So all this fuss was not about implementing of 25% tariffs but it was about trying to reduce the fentanyl import.
Doug Ford has said that it’s very disturbing that USA president Donald Trump blames Canada to bring drugs (especially fentanyl) into USA.
Doug Ford said that, according to USA customs statistics, over 9600kg of fentanyl is coming to USA from Mexico and only 19kg is coming from Canada which is 0.001% of Mexico fentanyl “supply”.
We don’t need to “Make Canada Great Again” because it already is. This Isn’t the 1800s. We’re not perfect—no country is—but we’re focused on building something better, not tearing ourselves apart.
For anyone still dreaming of Manifest Destiny 2.0, wake up. The days of annexation are over. Canada isn’t a territory waiting to be claimed—it’s a global leader. From peacekeeping missions to environmental stewardship, Canada punches well above its weight on the world stage. We don’t need the U.S. to define our greatness; we define it ourselves.