Canadian ministers are responding to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's repeated assertions that Canada should become the 51st state of the U.S.
Canadian ministers are taking seriously Donald Trump 's threats to absorb Canada into the United States, after initially dismissing them as jokes. Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Wednesday that Trump's assertions should be taken seriously, even though he knows they won't go anywhere. LeBlanc, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, Immigration Minister Marc Miller and International Trade Minister Mary Ng all responded to Trump's comments that he would use 'economic force' to absorb Canada .
LeBlanc joined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on a trip to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in late November after the president-elect threatened to hit Canada with hefty tariffs. Following the meeting, Fox News reported that Trump said if Canada can't handle the economic effects of a punishing 25 percent tariff on its goods, it should become the 51st state of the U.S. 'In a three-hour social evening at the president's residence in Florida on a long weekend of American Thanksgiving, the conversation was going to be lighthearted. The president was telling jokes, the president was teasing us, it was, of course, in no way a serious comment,' LeBlanc said in December. But since that November meeting, Trump has repeatedly referenced Canada as the '51st state' and Trudeau as 'governor' in various social media posts
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