There was no lack of speculation about how the comments from US President Donald Trump in Canada could influence the federal elections.
It is now time to ask a new, long -term question: about how his attitude will have an impact on the election on Monday.
It now seems more and more clearly that Trump’s expansionist efforts are not a fleeting imagination. He was silent for a while and led some to ask if he had brought it out of his system – that he might only troll our former prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
In the past few days, however, the president has been stumped in various encounters with the media that he would seriously see that Canada would become a state.
So that nobody thinks he could joke, he made it clear that he wasn’t. Time Magazine asked him In an interview: Maybe you troll a little when you talk about Canada as a 51st state.
“Actually, no, I’m not,” he said in an interview led on Tuesday and published on Friday.
“I really don’t troll. Canada is an interesting case. … I say that the only way that this thing really works that Canada becomes a state.”
He repeated his often defined claim about the US subsidization of Canada and repeated figures that seem to take this Trade deficitAdd Canada’s sub -editions defense And overdo this total amount wildly.
When asked whether he would like to let the American Empire grow as part of his conversation about Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, Trump replied: “If we had the right opportunity. Yes.”
When asked whether he wanted to be remembered as president who expanded the American area, he replied: “Wouldn’t do anything about it.”
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At this point, it is no longer durable to assume that the president only jokes, says one of the best connected Canadians in Washington. Finally, Trump even set his desire for territorial expansion in his opening speech.
“Nobody says something repeated for months without believing it,” said Eric Miller, an international trade consultant in Washington and consultants for the relationships between Canada and the USA.
He said Trump believes in two things: The United States does not need Canada under its current economic agreement and he wishes that he could acquire it.
How if under what conditions and how determined he is to make the effort to achieve this – everything is unclear, said Miller.
“I don’t think there is currently a master plan that says: ‘We will make X in three months, and in six months we will’ y ‘do’,” said Miller.
“But the wish is clearly there. … Certainly this will be a top priority for the next Prime Minister.
“It will be a topic that the next government in Canada has to constantly monitor. And you have to assess the intentions of President Trump over time because his interest and his intentions can develop over time.”
The challenge for Canada’s next government
There will be early contact points between the next government and Trump. For the beginning there is that G7 summit in Alberta in June. The countries should also enter comprehensively Commercial and security negotiations.
For a while, it seemed plausible that these events played without Trump and questioned Canada’s sovereignty.
After all, he had stopped talking about Canada as a 51st state for a few weeks, since Mark Carney had replaced last month as Prime Minister and Liberal leader.
After her first call, Carney said Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty in this conversation. But it turned out that the story was more.
The political rival of liberal leader Mark Carney quickly attacked after he confirmed that US President Donald Trump had raised the idea of Canada as a 51st state during a telephone call last month that Carney had previously described as a “constructive” conversation between two sovereign nations.
The first indication that this was only a temporary break in his rhetoric came in a comment by the Press spokesman of the White House: Karoline Leavitt told a CBC reporter that Trump still believed to make Canada a state.
Then he said it again To other reporters in the oval office. Then again to Time Magazine when asked about it and insisted that he was not joking.
And this week Radio-Canada reported that Trump-Dive of the public explanation of Carney-Trump indeed mentioned that Make Canada to the 51st state in your call last month.
When Carney was asked about the discrepancy on the campaign lane, he insists that he did not lie about his previous statement that Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty. The liberal leader said they had the conversation as two sovereign nations.
In response to questions on Friday, however, Carney admitted that something has changed between the countries.
“The recent comments by the President are more evidence, as if we needed some that the old relationship with the United States we had was over,” the liberal leader told reporters in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, he said by a line he said for the first time last month.
“And it is proof, it is a memory, it is a call to act that we have to set a new way. This is the new reality.”
Mark Carney Log over his call with Trump in a desperate attempt to distract from the lost liberal decade of rising costs and crimes and to make Canadians give liberals a 4th term.
Carney’s entire campaign is based on lies. If he lies about it, he would be …
Spendert G7 simple
What does not yet have to be determined is whether the management of Trump’s efforts will be Carney’s challenge after the election on Monday – or the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
But you will soon be employed and prepare for an extremely unusual G7. On Canadian soil with Trump as a guest.
Millers advice? Greet Trump in public comments in Canada. Do not return to a corner. In private privately, clear consequences for the threat to the Canada’s sovereignty are presented.
Work with the other G7 countries. Miller proposes a group declaration that confirms the principle of national sovereignty. Then release this statement with or without a signature of the United States.
