Washington – President Trump’s candidate, Canada Ambassador, said the country’s sovereignty in the midst of the President’s repeated threats to be part of the United States on Thursday.
“Canada is a sovereign state, yes,” said Pete Hoekstra at his confirmation hearing when asked by Democratic Senator Chris Coons du Delaware if he agreed that Canada is an independent nation and that it should not even be joking the 51st state “.
Hoekstra also said that the two countries “have a great history of work together”. He added that Mr. Trump’s priorities on “freer and fair trade” would increase trade relations with Canada.
Trump questioned the international border between the United States and Canada on Thursday, calling it an “artificial line” that someone drew decades ago.
“Makes no sense,” he said.
This week, Mr. Trump Prices imposed 25% On imports of steel and aluminum from Canada and threatened to double the samples if the country did not suspend its new 25% supplement on electricity exports to several American states.
Trump justified prices as protecting American interests, although the existing trade agreement with Canada is negotiated and signed by him during his first mandate. The president suggested that Canada should acquiesce its annexation requests to mitigate economic pressure.
“The only thing that makes sense is that Canada becomes our fifty first darling state,” Trump wrote on Tuesday. “It would make all the prices, and everything else would disappear completely.
