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Hibapress / Radio-Canada
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had informed Canada that membership of his anti -missile shield project “gold dome” would cost $ 61 billion, returning to his “51st state” rhetoric.
In a publication on social networks, Donald Trump said Canada would pay billions of dollars to be part of the Dome if he remained a distinct, but uneven nation, but that it would cost nothing if it became our dear 51st state.
In his publication, Donald Trump said Canada studied the offer!
The Prime Minister’s office said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Mark Carney had clearly indicated, on each occasion, including during his conversations with President Trump, that Canada was an independent and sovereign nation, and that it would remain.
During a meeting between the president and the Prime Minister in the oval office earlier this month, Mark Carney told Donald Trump that Canada would never become an American state.
During this meeting, which the two leaders qualified as cordial and productive, the president assured journalists that he still wanted to annex Canada.
Donald Trump had seemed to alleviate his speech to Canada in recent weeks, and the new United States Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, told several Canadian media that he believed that annexation discussions were over.
Sovereignty
Donald Trump’s comments on Tuesday intervened a few hours after King Charles III opened the Federal Parliament with a discourse from the throne aimed at unifying Canada and reaffirming its sovereignty.
The king was invited to give this speech by Mark Carney, a symbolic gesture after months of Donald Trump’s comments on the transformation of Canada into an American state. The king said on Tuesday that As the anthem reminds us, the real north is indeed strong and free.
Donald Trump announced earlier this month the aspects of a plan for this complex system (new window) On several levels – based on the Israeli defense network.
Trump said that the project would cost $ 175 billion and that it would be completed during his mandate, which ended in 2029.
Despite Mr. Trump’s claims, the Congress Budget Office considered that the program’s space components alone could cost up to $ 542 billion over the next 20 years.
Mark Carney said on several occasions that Ottawa intended to negotiate a new global security and economy relationship with the United States.
The Prime Minister’s cabinet said Mark Carney and his ministers had in -depth discussions with their American counterparts.
These discussions focused in particular on the strengthening of the aerospace defense command of North America (NORAD) and on other initiatives such as the Dome.
