Tory MP Says Trump’s ’51st State’ Comment Result of International Pacts Weakening Canada’s Sovereignty

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis says incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is not merely joking about making Canada the ’51st’ U.S. state, and that the Declaration of North America (DNA) agreement signed between the countries in 2023 has eroded Canada’s sovereignty.
“Predictively, the elites will claim the DNA will have no impact on Canadian sovereignty. In the end, we wait until it innocuously seeps in and impacts our national rule-making, eventually becoming a part of our national DNA,” Lewis said in a post on social media platform X on Dec. 28. 
Lewis said she was concerned with the Declaration of North America (DNA) agreement signed between Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2023. She noted that while Canadians have been told the agreement is non-binding, many international agreements that are non-binding end up impacting Canadian laws….