VANCOUVER, British Columbia—resident-elect Donald Trump’s remarks that Canada should become the 51st state drew condemnation and a patriotic outburst on Saturday from a former Canadian prime minister who offered blunt advice to the incoming US leader: “Give your head a shake!” Jean Chrétien, who was Canada’s prime minister from...
President Donald Trump, center, reaches out to Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they prepare to sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is replacing the NAFTA trade deal during a ceremony at a hotel before the start of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Nov. 30, 2018.
Jean Chrétien, who was Canada’s prime minister from 1993 to 2003, joined a chorus of officials from the northern US neighbor who say Trump’s remarks are no longer a joke and may undermine America’s closest ally. He extolled his nation’s love of independence and said Trump’s remarks amounted to “totally unacceptable insults and unprecedented threats” to Canadian sovereignty.
Trump has tossed expansionist rhetoric not just at Canada but also at other US allies, with arguments that the frontiers of American power need to be extended to the Danish territory of Greenland, and southward to include the Panama Canal.“If you think that threatening and insulting us is going to win us over, you really don’t know a thing about us,” Chrétien wrote in the article. “We may look easy-going, mild-mannered. But make no mistake, we have spine and toughness.
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