Wab Kinew reacts to Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario: "You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago? I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now."
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
Dear @realDonaldTrump
Look at how they publicly talk about you now.
This is WHO YOU ARE TO THE WORLD outside your cult.
They don't even honor the office anymore...because you have desecrated it.
The sheer number of lies from President Trump about Canada – growing again today – is remarkable. Just some fact checks from the last 18 months:
- Trump falsely said today that Canada's unemployment rate is "10% and rapidly rising,” though it is 6.4% (under the Canadian method that adds about a percentage point) and has been declining for three months
- Trump falsely said today that Canada does 95% of its business with the US, though 72% of Canadian exports went to the US last year
- Trump falsely said today that high Canadian agricultural tariffs have caused the entire US trade deficit with Canada, though that deficit is overwhelmingly caused by US imports of cheap Canadian crude and though something like 97% of US ag exports to Canada are tariff-free
- Trump has falsely said Canada generally doesn’t “take” US agricultural exports, though Canada is the world’s second-biggest buyer of those exports
- Trump has falsely said the Canadian public likes the idea of becoming the 51st state, which the Canadian public overwhelmingly opposes
- Trump has falsely said Canada is one of the world’s highest-tariff countries, though it is actually low in WTO global rankings
- Trump has falsely said Canada essentially doesn't have a military, though its military has fought with the US in multiple wars and its force size ranks in the upper half of NATO
- Trump has falsely said Canada hiked its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration, though they hadn’t changed since Trump’s first presidency
- Trump has falsely said the US trade deficit with Canada is “$200 billion,” though it is nowhere close
- Trump has falsely said Canada prohibits US banks, though it doesn't and though more than a dozen US banks were operating in Canada at the time he spoke
- Trump has falsely said Canada is “constantly surrounded” by Chinese and Russian ships, though that is fiction
- Trump has falsely said then-outgoing PM Trudeau was using their trade battle to run again for prime minister, though Trudeau obviously wasn’t running
wish I didn’t feel I’ve been naive about the prospects for humanity. but before the je/djt files were released, I had no idea of the scale of heinous malevolence.. how widespread it’s been. unlimited wealth holds grotesque power. an epic reckoning is needed, commensurate to the evil revealed. our fate as a species depends on it. the next months and years will be telling. #trumpsteinfiles
"As serious as combatting illegal fentanyl is, its link to these trade decisions is highly questionable. In fact, it appears there are more eggs being smuggled into the U.S. from Canada right now than fentanyl."
-- Matthew Holmes, Executive Vice President and Chief of Public Policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Rep. Jasmine Crockett:
"This is not America. This is a terrible nightmare. Somebody slap me and wake me the f*ck up because I'm ready to get on with it."
Jasmine is all of us.
BREAKING: President Zelensky tells Brett Baier what angered him the most in his exchange with Trump today.
Zelensky only wants respect for his country and his people. That’s it. Trump completely disrespected Ukraine and Ukrainians and propped up Putin. America needs to wake up.
When people see the maple leaf, they see possibility. They see freedom. They see a helping hand.
They see Canada, and the best of our values.
Happy 60th to our flag. 🇨🇦
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