Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told an economic summit on Friday that he believes U.S. President Donald Trump is sincere in his desire to annex Canada and that this stems from the American leader’s interest in gaining access to this country’s critical minerals, a source said.

Mr. Trudeau made the comments to an audience of about 200 business leaders, trade experts and union executives in Toronto who have gathered to map out ways to boost economic growth and attract new capital investment in the face of the looming threat of U.S. protectionism.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly proposed to Canada in recent months that it could avoid tariffs if it agreed to a political union with the United States. He has mockingly referred to Mr. Trudeau as the governor of the 51st state.

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    Americans please kill your president, for our own safety if nothing. Sincerely your brothers up north.

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    Should we start mining the border? I’ve always been anti war, I hate guns and I’m not really patriotic. But if some Unitedstaters start to invade my country, I’ll probably change my mind real fast and those fuckers will have to (gladly I’m sure) kill me.

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      Those that invade won’t be true Americans, they will be nazis wearing the US flag

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        Hmm. Not sure it makes a big difference for the people invaded.

        You’re saying the nazis that invaded a large part of Europe in the last world war were not “true” Germans? It must have been comforting for the invaded people to know that no true German could ever be a nazi.

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    If the US tries to invade Canada, I’ll happily lend my rifles to defend the land to the north.

    I consider it my patriotic duty to my fellow human.

    Just take care of my dogs if anything happens to me.

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    Trump’s mineral lust is peak imperialism wrapped in tariff threats. Oh sure, let’s casually annex a sovereign nation because lithium and cobalt are just that shiny. Trudeau’s right to call this out, but where’s the spine? Rolling over for a 30-day tariff “pause” while Trump licks his chops over our resources? Pathetic.

    This isn’t governance—it’s a shakedown. 51st state? Try 19th-century colonialism with a MAGA hat. Canada’s playing nice, but we’re just negotiating our own surrender while corporate ghouls nod along.

    Wake up. Diversify trade. Nationalize critical minerals. Burn the 49th parallel to ash if they cross it. Sovereignty isn’t a bargaining chip—it’s the only chip.

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      I’m not really patriotic but this fucktard make me want to use my Canadian war crime DNA like burning every us national park hoping that the animal will trample as many persone as possible while fleeing also got an idea with powdered glass and modified snow canon

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        Im really interested in knowing what Canada did in WW1 that caused the Geneva convention

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          Lot of night trench raid with home made weapon like spiked club and shive. grenade catapult and pipe bomb also lot of fun killing prisonner of war ( we did not take any ) by beating them to death in place of shooting them .

          The non respect of live and let live ( you only attack if ordered ) and non respect of truce and using it to get closer before killing enemy

          At least one time throwing canned beef to starving ferman soldier and when they ask for more throwing grenade

          And that only some of the WW1

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    Trump is speedrunning all future wars. We need to confront this issue now with an open mind for everyone. If not, one country will try this again but with a competent person

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    I can’t imagine there’d be many in the military willing to go along with this.

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    what? y’all don’t want a little bit of anschluss? god to think we used to know you

    /s in case it wasn’t clear

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    Didn’t he resign? Therefore his opinion is basically irrelevant on any consequential issue and he should get out of the way so the next generation of leadership can decide how to respond to serious threats and issues?