President-elect Donald Trump infuriated America’s neighbor to the north this week by continuing to suggest that the weak country would become America’s 51st state.
Trump said during a Tuesday press conference at Mar-a-Lago that the U.S. subsidized Canada to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars per year and got very little in-exchange.
“They don’t essentially have a military. They have a very small military,” he said. “They rely on our military. It’s all fine, but they got to pay for that. It’s very unfair.”
He said that he was going to put “very serious tariffs” on Canada to level the playing field until Canada decides to give the U.S. better trade terms and stop the flow of drugs and illegal aliens pouring across America’s northern borders.
Trump was then asked to respond to Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, who…
