Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says a Canadian prime minister should tell U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that “Canada will never be the 51st state.”
Trump’s persistent jabs at Canada and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicate that the incoming president is seeking to capitalize on what he perceives as the vulnerabilities of the Liberal government for his own benefit, Poilievre told The Toronto Sun in an exclusive interview.
“That’s why we need a strong, smart prime minister who has the brains and backbone to first and foremost say to President Trump, Canada will never be the 51st state,” Poilievre said. “We will be an independent, proud, sovereign country, as we always have been.”…