Trump explodes the idea that his speech in Canada was just a transient imagination

There was no shortage of speculation about how US President Donald Trump’s comments on Canada affecting the federal elections.

It is now time to start asking a new long -term question: about how his position will affect Canada after the two elections.

It is now increasingly clear that Trump’s expansion aspirations are not fictional transient. He remained calm for a while, which led some to ask whether he had brought it out of his regime – perhaps just hunting the former Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.

But in recent days, the president was frank in various confrontations with the media that he liked to see that Canada has become a state.

Fear that anyone believes that he might joke, he made it clear that it was not. Time Magazine He asked him In an interview: Maybe you wander a little when talking about Canada as a country 51.

“In fact, no, I am not,” Time said in an interview held on Tuesday, and was published on Friday.

“I am not really wandering. Canada is an interesting issue … I say the only way this thing works is to become Canada as a state.”

He often repeated his demand about the US support in Canada, which restores the numbers that seem to be taken trade deficitAdd Canada’s spending on Defense Violently exaggerating this total amount.

When asked if he wanted to develop the American Empire, as part of his talk about Canada, Greenland and Panama, Trump answered, “If we have the right opportunity. Yes.”

When he was asked again if he wanted to remember as a head of US land, he replied, “He will not mind.”

At this stage, we can no longer assume that the president is joking only, as one of the best Canadians in Washington says. After all, even Trump put his desire for regional expansion in his opening speech.

“No one says something repeated for several months of this kind without believing,” said Eric Miller, an international commercial advisor in Washington and a consultant in Canada and the United States.

He said that Trump believes two things: The United States does not need Canada under its current economic ranking, and that he hopes he can get it.

Miller said that, when, under any circumstances and the extent of its determination is the effort to achieve this – all this is not clear.

Miller said: “I don’t think there is a major plan that says now,” Three months from now we will do X, and six months from now we will do, “Miller said.

“But the desire there clearly … … this will definitely be a top priority for the next prime minister.

“There will be an issue that will have to be constantly monitored in Canada. They will have to assess what President Trump’s intentions are over time, because his interest and intentions may develop over time.”

The challenge facing the next government in Canada

There will be early contact points between the next government and Trump. For beginners, there G7 Summit At Alberta in June. The two countries are scheduled to enter comprehensive Trade and Security negotiations.

For a while, it seemed reasonable that these events might be revealed without exceeding Trump, and calling on Canada.

After all, he stopped talking about Canada as a country 51 for a few weeks, as Mark Carney replaced Trudeau as prime minister and liberal leader last month.

After his first phone call, Carney said that Trump respected Canada in that conversation. But it turns out that there is more for the story.

The first indication that this was merely a temporary stop in his speech came in a comment from the White House press secretary: Caroline Levitt told CBC that Trump still believes in making Canada a country.

Then it is He said that again To other correspondents in the oval office. Then again to Time magazine, when he was asked about it, he insisted that he was not joking.

This week, Radio-Canada stated that-Bayan Carne, the General despite Trump I really mentioned the desire for Make Canada the 51st country in their invitation last month.

When he was asked in the campaign’s course of contradiction, Carney insists that he was not lying about his previous statement that Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty; The liberal leader said they had a conversation as a sovereign state.

However, in response to the questions on Friday about the time interview, Carney admitted that something had changed between countries.

“The latest comments of the president are more evidence, as if we needed anything, that the old relationship with the United States that we went through,” the liberal leader told the Sulti Steel reporters. Mary, Onton, Using a line he said for the first time last month.

“It is evidence, it is a reminder, it is an invitation to the work we need to draw a new path. This is the new reality.”

G7 embarrassing

What is not determined yet is whether the Trump’s aspiration management will be the Carney Challenge, after Monday’s elections – or conservative leader Pierre Boelifer.

But they will be busy after that, and they are preparing for the G7 very unusual. On Canadian soil, with Trump as their guest.

Miller’s advice? In public comments, welcome to Canada. Do not publicly support him to an angle. Individually, clarifying clear consequences for sovereignty threats in Canada.

Meanwhile, working with other G7 countries. Miller proposes a collective statement that reaffirm the principle of national sovereignty. Then he edited this statement, with or without the signing of the United States.