In his speech to the country, newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney mentioned President Donald Trump in a matter of minutes.
The 60-year-old, who took over the position from former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month after he declared his intention to resign after ten years in office, will make the position his own.
Speaking to his supporters in Ottawa in the early hours of this morning (April 29), the Liberal Party leader said, “Humility is also about recognizing that one of the responsibilities of government is to prepare for the worst, not hope for the best.”
“As I’ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country – never.”
“But these are not these are not idle threats, President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us – that will never, that will never ever happen. But we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.”
It comes after Trump made fun of Canadians for wanting to make the country the 51st state in the US, even calling Trudeau the “Governor of Canada” before he left.
Although he acknowledges that Canada could become the US’ “greatest state” if it joined forces, the 78-year-old Republican has said that Canada “only works as a state” because America is “spending $200 billion a year to subsidize it.”
“We are over the shock of the American betrayal but we should never forget the lessons, we have to look out for ourselves and above all we have to take care of each other,” Carney said.
“When I sit down with President Trump it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations, and it will be with our full knowledge that we have many, many other options than the United States to build prosperity for all Canadians.”
“Now in the face of this crisis, united we are buying Canadian,” he continued, reminding the country of what Canadians have built on a unified front.
“We are exploring everything this country has to offer, we are supporting our friends and neighbors in the crosshairs of President Trump, through a crisis that we did not create.”
“United we will win this trade war and build the strongest economy in the G7. An economy that works for everyone.”
The Group of Seven, or G7 for short, is an unofficial association of seven of the world’s largest developed economies: the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
