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I don’t think that most Republicans would want Canada to become the 51st state. Based on our forty million population, we would get approximately the same number of seats as California. It is possible that many of those seats could go to Democrats,
says Chapnick
And even with all that, then you have Indigenous Nations. Even if they are implicated in disbanding this union, there is no guarantee they would want to join the United States,
says ChapnickIf the Americans wanted to conquer us militarily, I guess so. Otherwise, not really and certainly not in the amount of time the president-elect thinks it would take for this to happen,
says Adam Chapnick, professor of defence studies at the Canadian Forces College in OntarioIt would probably be a matter of diplomacy,
says BerardCanada must not panic right now,
says veteran political analyst John Parisella, author of books and articles on American politicsThe joke is over. It's a way for him, I think, to sow confusion, to agitate people, to create chaos knowing this will never happen. It's becoming very counterproductive,
LeBlanc said of Trump's rhetoric about Canada
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I don't know who is misinforming him,
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said
He should focus on his own issues in his own country, because he's got lots of them."
Liberal Canadian lawmaker Judy Sgro said to reporters when asked about Trump's commentsIf Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them,
he wrote
I've talked to so many governors and congresspeople and senators and never once did they say Canada is the problem,
Ford told CNN's Erin Burnett in a Monday night interviewYou know something, to the president I'll make him a counteroffer,
he told reporters on MondayWe already got our strict gun laws,
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There is a lot of support among the people of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be in the future either,
Frederiksen said
Already, you have seen just how his mastery of the bully pulpit has expedited a political earthquake in Canada. This ensures that America remains dominant in our own backyard, which puts America’s interests first, expanding our trade and security cooperation,
Mowers argued
I think one of the basic propositions we brought to our work over the last four years is that we're stronger, we're more effective, we get better results when we're working closely with our allies. Not saying or doing things that may alienate them,
Blinken said Wednesday at a news conference
I think what he's doing is setting the tone for the next four years, which is that America is the dominant superpower in the world. We're the protector of freedom and democracy across the world. We're the only country capable of pushing back against China, and it's time we started acting like we're that country,
veteran Republican strategist and communicator Ryan Williams told Fox NewsThey should give it up because we need it for national security. That’s for the free world. I’m talking about protecting the free world,
Trump said of his longtime ambitions to acquire GreenlandYou know something, to the president I'll make him a counteroffer. How about if we buy Alaska and throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time? [Trump] may be joking, but under my watch, that will never ever happen."
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, on Monday in comments to reportersHey, Donald, have we got a deal for you? You think we want to be the 51st state huh? But maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California? Oregon? Washington?"
Speaking at a press conference last week in Ottawa, May called out the president-elect, saying
Panama is a relatively new focus of his,
she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, also noting how the idea of America “acquiring Greenland for strategic purposes” has been touted for decades