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Trump blows up the notion his Canada talk was just a fleeting fancy
'I'm really not trolling,' he tells Time Magazine, of his dream to make Canada a state
There's been no shortage of speculation about how U.S. President Donald Trump's comments about Canada might impact the federal election.
It's now time to start asking a new, longer-term question: About how his attitude will impact Canada beyond Monday's election.
It now seems increasingly obvious that Trump's expansionist aspirations are no fleeting fancy. He kept quiet for a while, leading some to wonder whether he'd gotten it out of his system — that maybe he was just simply trolling our former prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
But in recent days, the president has been blunt in different encounters with media that he seriously would love to see Canada become a state.
Lest anyone think he might be joking, he made clear he wasn't. Time magazine asked him in an interview: Maybe you're trolling a bit when talking about Canada as 51st state.
"Actually, no, I'm not," he told Time in an interview conducted Tuesday, and published Friday.
"I'm really not trolling. Canada is an interesting case.… I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state."
He repeated his oft-stated claim about the U.S. subsidizing Canada, restating figures that appear to take the trade deficit, add Canada's under-spending on defence and wildly exaggerate that total sum.
Asked if he wanted to grow the American empire, as part of his talk about Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, Trump replied, "If we had the right opportunity. Yeah."
Asked again if he wanted to be remembered as a president who expanded American territory, he replied, "Wouldn't mind."
At this point, it's no longer tenable to assume the president is just joking, says one of the best-connected Canadians in Washington. After all, Trump even put his desire for territorial expansion in his inaugural address.
"Nobody says something repeatedly for months of this nature without believing it," said Eric Miller, an international trade consultant in Washington and adviser on Canada-U.S. relations.
He said Trump believes two things: that the U.S. doesn't need Canada under their current economic arrangement, and that he wishes he could acquire it.
How, when, under what conditions and how determined he is to put the effort into making this happen — all of that's unclear, Miller said.
"I don't think there's a master plan right now which says, 'Three months from now we will do X, and six months from now we will do Y,'" Miller said.
"But the desire is clearly there.… Certainly this is going to be a top priority for the next prime minister.
"It will be an issue that the next government in Canada will constantly have to monitor. And they will have to assess what President Trump's intentions are over time, because his interest and his intentions may evolve over time."
The challenge for Canada's next government
There will be early points of contact between the next government and Trump. For starters, there's the G7 summit in Alberta in June. The countries are also set to enter comprehensive trade and security negotiations.
For a while, it seemed plausible that these events might unfold without Trump disparaging, and calling into question, Canada's sovereignty.
After all, he'd stopped talking about Canada as the 51st state for a few weeks, since Mark Carney replaced Trudeau as prime minister and Liberal leader last month.
After their first phone call, Carney said Trump had respected Canada's sovereignty in that conversation. But it turns out there was more to the story.
The first indication this was merely a temporary pause in his rhetoric came in a comment from the White House press secretary: Karoline Leavitt told a CBC reporter that Trump still believed in making Canada a state.
Then he said it again to other reporters in the Oval Office. Then again to Time Magazine, when asked about it, insisting he wasn't joking.
And this week Radio-Canada reported that — Carney's public statement notwithstanding — Trump indeed mentioned wanting to make Canada the 51st state in their call last month.
When asked on the campaign trail about the discrepancy, Carney insists he wasn't lying about his previous statement that Trump had respected Canada's sovereignty; the Liberal leader said they'd had the conversation as two sovereign nations.
Still, in response to questions Friday about the Time interview, Carney acknowledged that something has changed between the countries.
"The president's latest comments are more proof, as if we needed any, that the old relationship with the United States that we've had is over," the Liberal leader told reporters in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., using a line he first said last month.
"And it's proof, it's a reminder, it's a call to action that we need to chart a new path. That's the new reality."
Awkward G7 incoming
What's yet to be determined is whether managing Trump's aspirations will be Carney's challenge, after Monday's election — or Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's.
But they'll be busy soon thereafter, preparing for a highly unusual G7. On Canadian soil, with Trump as their guest.
Miller's advice? In public comments, welcome Trump to Canada. Don't publicly back him into a corner. In private, spell out clear consequences for threats to Canada's sovereignty.
Meanwhile, work with the other G7 countries. Miller proposes a group statement reaffirming the principle of national sovereignty. Then release that statement, with or without the signature of the United States.
Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States
Why are there just two nations occupying that enormous expanse of the North American continent north of the Rio Grande? Why not just one unlimited American empire? Or why not several nations? This unique work gives clear and vivid form to the immense and complex forces--economic, political, military, diplomatic, social, and geographic--that created and confirmed the U.S.-Canada border. The largest single work ever undertaken by the National Film Board of Canada, Stuggle for a Border is the result of painstaking scholarship and research, and imaginative filmmaking. Each of the nine one-hour films is entirely self-contained, though part of a larger continuity. There are no interviews, but an on-screen narrator provides commentary and perspective. The films are so constructed that, if need be, they may be shown in half-hour, or shorter, segments.

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Elizabeth May: “We’re going to elect more Greens than we ever had before” – April 23, 2025
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Sparks and smiles at Fredericton candidates' debate
Liberal, Conservative, NDP, and Green talk about the big issues, trade shots
Competing visions for the future of Canada were on full display at a Fredericton-Oromocto federal election candidates’ debate on Tuesday, with Liberal David Myles and Conservative Brian Macdonald verbally squaring off.
The debate, held at the Cyber Centre in Fredericton’s Knowledge Park, a business tech hub, saw Macdonald, Myles, Green Pam Allen-LeBlanc and the NDP’s Nicki Lyons-Macfarlane face questions for about an hour.
Topics discussed included the trade war, housing, immigration, the “knowledge economy,” and trade and population growth.
Myles mentioned Liberal Leader Mark Carney five times; Macdonald didn’t mention Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, but did take one stab at Carney.
It was generally a friendly affair, but sparks flew a few times.
The first topic of discussion was about the housing crisis, and how Ottawa can help address the housing crisis.
Myles applauded the Liberals’ plan, which would see Ottawa “getting into the business of home building … and taking that initiative like they did after the Second World War.”
Macdonald replied that while he has personal respect for Myles, the idea of government stepping into the real estate market highlights “our different ideological perspectives” and “makes my skin crawl.”
“You know, those of you that have studied economics or know anything about economics … if the demand is there, often the supply comes to meet it, and if it doesn’t, there’s something in the way. And what’s in the way of home building in Canada is government,” Macdonald said.
That theme, of government “getting out of the way,” was one Macdonald returned to several times.
When asked about how a Conservative government would accelerate urban development, Macdonald began his reply by noting that “I do believe the government needs to get out of the way.”
He did it a third time when the candidates were asked about how their party’s government would grow the “knowledge economy.” Drawing on his experience as a businessman, Macdonald complained that many sectors are highly regulated.
“One of the things we need to do to encourage growth … (is to reduce) red tape, reduction in bureaucracy,” he said, also advocating for tax cuts to help businesses grow.
That’s when Myles chose to hit back, and used the business tech venue to make his argument.
“You know, this is one of those things where I’m not sure anybody in this room or in the tech sector … in Fredericton would say the government should get out of the way,” Myles said.
“Would it exist if the government got out of the way, if it wasn’t for the fact that government worked with private industry? It was a partnership.
“I haven’t been reading about this for very long, but I have looked into it enough to know that public money was invested in all of this. This was a plan that was built out for a long time. Government can do things that private industry won’t do. It’s not to say that you don’t need both. You want a thriving private sector.”
Allen-LeBlanc, meanwhile, accused both big parties of making “reckless and irresponsible decisions for a very long time now, and I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of it.”
“Our kids don’t have the same opportunities that we had,” Allen-LeBlanc said.
“We are pumping billions of dollars into foreign-owned oil and gas corporations, large corporations. Well, your tax rate has not been lowered. Consecutive Conservative and Liberal governments have favoured their friends in the large corporations, and we have tax loopholes for billionaires that have to be closed.”
Lyons-Macfarlane’s best moment came shortly after Macdonald said a Conservative government will move harm reduction clinics, which he said he calls “harm multiplication clinics,” away from core city areas.
“We’re going to make sure that those clinics are not near schools, they’re not near parks, and we’re also going to make sure that there’s care available for people that are suffering from addiction,” Macdonald said.
“Shutting down safe injection sites isn’t going to solve anything,” Lyons-Macfarlane told Macdonald. “We cannot force people into addictions treatment. It is a collaborative effort. It’s mental health care. It is physical health care.”
Trump rhetoric on disputed N.B.-Maine waters ‘reprehensible’: Holt
An executive order aims to deregulate the U.S. fishing industry, while Trump brings up fishing waters between New Brunswick and Maine
An executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump that aims to deregulate the U.S. fishing industry is concerning, says Premier Susan Holt.
That’s as the president’s rhetoric on the fishing waters between New Brunswick and Maine are “reprehensible,” Holt adds.
The premier’s words come after Trump signed a raft of executive orders late last week in the oval office in efforts to boost commercial fishing, although primarily aimed at doing away with a protected area near the U.S. territory of American Samoa, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
But a final executive order claimed that the American seafood industry as a whole is “dramatically” over regulated. That’s while also alleging unfair trading practices from foreign partners, although without specifics.
That prompted U.S .Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to say that the United States imports more seafood than it exports.
“Can you imagine that? We import seafood, and we have the greatest coasts and fishing in the world,” Lutick said.
It then spurred Trump to bring up Maine, alleging that Maine lobstermen can’t fish in areas off its coast that Canadian fishermen can.
“The Maine lobster,” Trump said. “You can’t get Maine lobsters…
“So Maine’s forced to go for days out to some other area that’s not as good. We have to free that up, too.”
He added: “Canada fishes there and we’re not allowed to.”
The words appear aimed at the disputed waters around Machias Seal Island, a remote, rocky island in the Bay of Fundy off New Brunswick’s southwest coast. The roughly 550 metre-long and 250 metre-wide island remains in a longstanding sovereignty dispute between Canada and the United States.
In 1832, New Brunswick built a lighthouse on the island to physically stake its claim, and it remains the only lighthouse in the Maritimes with a full time keeper, partly to maintain that ownership.
That said, every once in a while the dispute over the island and surrounding waters heats up.
A 110-square-mile area around Machias Seal Island is considered a “grey zone” where both Canadian and U.S. lobster fishers set traps, but with different rules.
Americans accuse the Canadians of operating under a different, more accommodating set of rules that allow them to catch larger lobsters.
Canadians counter that the Americans have higher catch limits and often don’t follow established boundary lines.
Just last year, New Brunswick’s Fundy North Fishermen’s Association alleged that Maine fishers were crossing into Canadian waters near New Brunswick to poach lobster in the absence of federal enforcement.
“We’re quite concerned about it,” Holt said, when asked about Trump’s executive order, the premier noting that New Brunswick fishermen and women in that area are “responsible,” while potentially fearing the opposite from American counterparts.
“We think some of the rhetoric from the president has been reprehensible,” she added. “So we are doing the work to make sure that we can support and defend our fishers’ interests in that area.
“It has been something that has been debated and disputed for some time, but New Brunswick fishermen and women have the right and earn a livelihood in fishing those waters and we’re going to make sure they can continue to do so safely and freely going forward.”
Asked exactly what the province is doing to ensure New Brunswick fishermen aren’t being put at a disadvantage, and whether Trump’s words could amount to an annexation threat, Holt said the provincial government is seeking clarity.
“As with anything that President Trump says, you have to dig in to try to find the reality in all of it, because often sometimes the rhetoric doesn’t match what is real and what are the rules,” Holt said.
“And so we are working to understand what exactly he’s proposing to do, and whether he can do that, while making sure we have all our ducks in a row so that we can strongly and forcefully defend our interests in that space.”
While signing the order, Trump alleged he changed the rules in that region during his first presidency, but while suggesting support for the Maine lobster industry lapsed during the Biden administration.
“That’s why we have to stay president for a long time,” he added.
The new executive order specifically calls for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to immediately consider suspending, revising or rescinding regulations that overly burden America’s commercial fishing, aquaculture and fish processing industries.
It gives 30 days to do so.
It also calls for a review of all geographic limits on commercial fishing, including protected areas, within 180 days of the order.
It claims that nearly 90 per cent of seafood on American shelves “is now imported, and the seafood trade deficit stands at over $20 billion.”
In a statement, the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association said Trump’s order “commits the (U.S.) federal government to improving our competitiveness in international markets.”
“The order breaks with decades of overregulation that has crushed working families in maritime communities,” it adds.
That’s while stating “the gray zone has always been an issue.”
Meanwhile, there are concerns south of the border both with the legality of the order and its environmental fallout.
“What we do know is executive orders tend to be unlawful and create a lot of chaos,” Conservation Law Foundation Senior Counsel Erica Fuller told CBS news WGME in Portland, Maine.
The Conservation Law Foundation is concerned about the impact of deregulation on endangered species like right whales.
“You still get other whales entangled in weak rope, and they can’t all break free,” Fuller said. “If it becomes a wild west on the water, it’s also going to harm the lobster fishery itself and the coastal communities that depend upon it.”
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