{"id":121992,"date":"2025-01-09T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/snowballs-chance-in-hell-trudeau-responds-to-donald-trumps-threats-to-annex-canada-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:39:44","slug":"snowballs-chance-in-hell-trudeau-responds-to-donald-trumps-threats-to-annex-canada-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/snowballs-chance-in-hell-trudeau-responds-to-donald-trumps-threats-to-annex-canada-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"'Snowball's chance in hell': Trudeau responds to Donald Trump's threats to annex Canada – USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “there isn\u2019t a snowball\u2019s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” in the face of continuing threats of annexation by President-elect Donald Trump<\/a> in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Tuesday.
The statement comes a day after Trudeau announced that he would be resigning from office<\/a> when a new Liberal party leader is chosen.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada with the latest instance coming Tuesday when he said that he wanted to acquire the U.S.’s northern neighbor<\/a> with “economic force.”
“Canada and the United States \u2012 that would really be something. You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security,” Trump said.
In the post Trudeau said that both countries benefit from being each other’s security partner.
Leaders from across the Canadian political spectrum renounced Trump’s threats Tuesday.
“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period,” Pierre Poilivere, the Conservative Party leader who is likely to become Prime Minister after Canada’s October election, said in a post on X<\/a>. “We are a great and independent country.”
The sentiment was echoed by Liberal Me\u0301lanie Joy, Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, in a post on X Tuesday<\/a>.
“President-elect Trump\u2019s comments show a complete lack of understanding of what makes Canada a strong country,” Joy said. “Our economy is strong. Our people are strong. We will never back down in the face of threats.”
Trump refused to rule out using military coercion in other parts of the world, namely Greenland and the Panama Canal, during his press conference Tuesday.
“No, I can’t assure you of either of those two,” Trump said of the Danish territory<\/a> and Panamanian shipping causeway. “But I can say this: We need them for economic security. The Panama Canal was built for our military.”
The President-elect called the Carter-era deal for the canal “disgusting” and claimed that the U.S. needed Greenland for national security purposes.
“There is a lot of support among the people of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be in the future either,\u201d Danish Prime Minister\u00a0Mette Frederiksen said in an interview on Danish television Tuesday.<\/a>
This story has been updated to include new information<\/em>
Contributing: Joey Garrison, Fernando Cervantes Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n

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