By suspending Parliament and promising to resign, the prime minister bought the Liberals time. But Canada will now face Donald J. Trump with a lame duck in charge.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to continuing threats of annexation from President-elect Trump on Tuesday. Trudeau, along with other leaders.
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned a month after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and Trump continued to troll on 'Truth Social' about Canada becoming the 51st state with NHL legend Wayne Gretzky as its governor.
Announcing his resignation on Monday, Trudeau said he planned to stay on as prime minister until a new party leader is selected. Who will succeed him — and can they survive a looming no-confidence vote?
Trudeau's resignation has shaken up Canadian politics, but experts say it will have little impact on Donald Trump's trade agenda.
In a post to Truth Social on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump suggested that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew "many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State" and the tariff policies Trump said he would enforce, leading to Trudeau's resignation announcement earlier today.
Donald Trump has shared a distorted map showing Canada as part of the United States. "Oh Canada!” the president-elect wrote on Truth Social alongside a picture of a distorted US map.
President-elect Donald Trump, since his presidential election win, has been making repeated calls for Canada to join the US federation as its 51st state.
Departing Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has issued a chilly rebuke to Donald Trump over his threats to force Canada to become the 51st American state.
“There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States. Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner,” Trudeau wrote on social media platform X.
Not a snowball’s chance,' is possibly the first time Justin Trudeau has adopted a strong tone against Donald Trump's proposal to make Canada the 51st state of the United States