Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney used his election night victory speech to shred President Donald Trump’s threats against Canadian sovereignty — and vowed Canada would never become America’s “51st state.”
Carney made Trump the centerpiece of his remarks after his Liberal Party clinched a narrow edge over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. While short of a majority, the Liberals’ win marks a stunning political comeback fueled largely by a surge in nationalist sentiment after Trump’s trade war and annexation threats.
“President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never — that will never, ever happen,” Carney declared Monday night in Ottawa, the same day Trump made a further jibe at the country joining the U.S.