OIn the day before the Canadians preparing to vote in a federal election, Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed President Donald Trump's previous comments on the realization of Canada “51st state”.
During an appearance on NBC Meet the press Sunday, April 27, the host Kristen Welker asked Rubio to know if the State Department had “taken action to carry out” Trump's plans “as he said, to annex Canada”.
“What the president said, and he said it several times is that he was informed by the previous Prime Minister [Justin Trudeau] that Canada could not survive without unfair trade with the United States, when [Trump] Asked: “Well, if you cannot survive as a nation without treating us unjustly in trade, then you should become a state” “” Rubio said.
Rubio’s comments are relevant after a back and forth between the former Prime Minister of Canada Trudeau and Trump on how Canada should face the pressures felt by Trump's prices. Canada also countered with a 25% price on goods imported from the United States
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Trump said several times on social networks and at journalists that Canada could become the 51st state of the United States When asked in the oval office by journalists If there was something that Trudeau could “give” Trump in the midst of the current pricing discussions, Trump reiterated that as a state, there would be no price on the country.
“What I would like to see; Canada becomes our 51st state,” said Trump. “If people wanted to play the game correctly, it would be 100% that it would become a state.”
The current Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, also spoke on Trump's persistent comments in the annex to Canada. He said Trump had raised the issue during a phone call in March. Speaking during a campaign press conference, Carney said: “To be clear, as I said to anyone who raised this problem in private or in public, including the president, it will never happen.”
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In an interview on April 22 with Time, Trump doubled his previous statements and said he “really did not drag” to make Canada on the 51st state, arguing that America “needs nothing in Canada”.
“We take care of their soldiers. We take care of all aspects of their lives, and we don't need it to make cars for us. In fact, we don't want them to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don't need their wood. We don't need their energy. We need nothing in Canada,” said Trump. “And I say that the only way that thing really works is that Canada becomes a state.”
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Trudeau – who resigned in January as chief of the Liberal Party of Canada – previously told legislators and business leaders to take the threat of the annexation seriously, with several points of sale reporting That at an economic summit in Canada-US in Toronto in February, Trudeau suggested that Trump wanted access to Canada's critical minerals. “Mr. Trump gives the mind that the simplest way to do so is to absorb our country and it is a real thing,” he said.
As mentioned, the new comments of Rubio land one day before the federal elections of Canada on April 28, which could see a new leader in place for negotiations on prices with the United States. Trump The comments weighed heavily In the Canadian elections so far, the Liberal Party using a wave of Canadian nationalism that has resulted from current trade concerns. The next head of the country could decide on the fate of critical relations of Canada with the United States and how it will move forward.
“They will have a new leader. We will deal with a new leadership in Canada,” said Rubio. “There are a lot to work in cooperation with Canada, but we do not like the way they have treated us in terms of trade, and the president argued this point when he responded to the previous Prime Minister.”
