Leader of the Canadian Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, threw cold water on President-elect Donald Trump’s idea to make the United States’ neighbor to the north its 51st state.
“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period. We are a great and independent country,” Poilievre posted on X Tuesday afternoon.
“We are the best friend to the U.S.,” he added. “We spent billions of dollars and hundreds of lives helping Americans retaliate against Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. We supply the U.S. with billions of dollars of high-quality and totally reliable energy well below market prices. We buy hundreds of billions of dollars of American goods.”
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