Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump says he may use economic pressure as a strategy to merge Canada with the United States.
During a Jan. 7 press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump was asked whether he would ever use the U.S. military to annex Canada, to which he replied, “no, economic force.”
He said merging the two countries and getting rid of the “artificially drawn” border would “really be something.”
Trump said the United States was losing hundreds of millions of dollars per year to “subsidize” Canada, and said the United States does not need to rely on Canadian products like lumber, dairy, and automotives….