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Ontario premier Doug ford has called US president-elect Donald Trump a “funny guy” on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News.
CTV News reports that he made this remark for trump’s comment that Canada should become the United States’ 51st state.
The premier spoke with Fox News host Nell Cavuto to discuss the incoming president’s plan to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico unless both countries halt the flow of illegal drugs and migrants to the US. They also discussed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to Trump in Mar-a-Lago on Friday.
Ford told Cavuto that, “We’ve always had an incredible relationship between Canada and the US, and we want to continue that. We want to make sure that we build the Can-Am Fortress per se, If you want to call it that.
“The real focus should be on China, it should be on Mexico, trying to bring in cheap products through Mexico, slapping stickers that they made in Mexico and shipping it up to America, and/or Ontario and Canada.”
When the conversation steered to Trudeau’s surprise visit with Trump, which came right on the heels of the president-elect’s impending tariffs on Canadian goods, Cavuto questioned Ford about his thoughts of Trump’s joke that Canada should become a US state if the tariffs are going to be so debilitating to Canada’s economy.
Ford answered that Trump has a “good sense of humour” and likened him to a “funny guy.”
He said, “I guess he’s still upset that in 1812 we burnt down the White House and he’s still holding a grudge after 212 years.”
British troops set fire to the White House, then called it the Presidential Mansion, on August 24, 1814, the final summer of the War of 1812.
