Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America during Canada trade war
Lake Ontario borders both the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of New York. United States President Donald Trump says he is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America as the trade war between the US and Canada escalates.
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- Fact 1: Trump slams Canada with new 50 percent auto tariffs from January How US sanctions on Iran ripple through global markets and consumers The move would be similar to how Trump sought to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America through an executive order last year.
- Fact 2: That’s in response to the Trump administration enacting 50 percent tariffs on $20bn of Canadian goods over the weekend after trade talks between the countries broke down.The new tariffs affect products that include wine, furniture, dairy products, cement, clothing, fishing rods and hockey equipment – or 5.5 percent of Canadian exports to the US.
- Fact 3: Trump also threatened new 50 percent tariffs on Canadian vehicles, car parts and steel while Carney said US trade demands showed that Washington wanted to “destroy our major industries”, including cars, steel and aluminium.
Lake Ontario borders both the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of New York. United States President Donald Trump says he is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America as the trade war between the US and Canada escalates.
“The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer,” Trump said on Tuesday in a post on his Truth Social platform. Canada-US trade war: Who wins? Who loses?
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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