Ontario Premier Doug Ford called U.S. president-elect Donald Trump a “funny guy” on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News for his comment that Canada should become the United States’s 51st state.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is pictured during a photo opportunity with New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Wednesday May 22, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Ford, who recently launched an American ad campaign touting the province as an “ally to the North” in the wake of the tariff threat, has already articulated that Trump should focus his attentions on Mexico and questioned why the U.S. would “attack closest friend,” likening the potential move as “family member stabbing you right in the heart.”
“The real focus should be on China, it should be on Mexico, trying to bringing in cheap products through Mexico, slapping stickers that they made in Mexico and shipping it up to America, and/or Ontario and Canada.” Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., told CTV New Channel’s Power Play she found it “reassuring” that the president-elect was cracking jokes.
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