Donald Trump has not taken too kindly to Canada since he returned to the White House almost two months ago. From threats to impose sweeping tariffs to floating the idea of making the neighbouring nation the “51st American state” and also publicly dismissing the US-Canada border as “an artificially drawn line”, Trump has managed to successfully shock the world.
Amid the simmering tensions, a New York Times report has revealed that during two phone calls with outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 3, Trump said he wanted to “revise the boundary” between the two countries, while also questioning the validity of a 117-year-old treaty which was signed under the then Republican presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII.
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