{"id":39795,"date":"2025-03-16T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39795"},"modified":"2025-03-16T21:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:34:05","slug":"canadian-ambassador-to-us-on-trumps-51st-state-remarks-we-take-seriously-our-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39795","title":{"rendered":"Canadian ambassador to US on Trump\u2019s 51st state remarks: \u2018We take seriously our sovereignty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kirsten Hillman,<\/u><\/a> Canadian ambassador to the U.S., said on Sunday that her country takes its sovereignty \u201cseriously\u201d as President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>appears to be holding firm in his ambitions to make Canada the 51st U.S. state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d Fox News anchor Jacqui Heinrich asked whether Canada\u2019s new prime minister, former central banker Mark Carney,<\/u><\/a> hasn\u2019t connected yet with Trump because of the U.S. president\u2019s remarks about making Canada the 51st state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think we take seriously our sovereignty. We take seriously the will of Canadians, and over 91 percent of Canadians are, you know, not interested in a discussion around joining the U.S.,\u201d Hillman said. \u201cSo I think he takes that seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s not a slight to the president, and that\u2019s not a slight to the American people,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s an expression of our own patriotism and our own sense of who we are as a country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillman said, however, that she\u2019s confident that the two countries\u2019 leaders will connect soon, noting the Canadians have already reached out. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to having that, you know, having them connect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo I think Prime Minister Carney will be looking to speak with the president as soon as possible and looking to forge a good and solid relationship,\u201d Hillman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Friday faced pointed questions<\/u><\/a> from Canadian journalists over the seriousness of Trump\u2019s calls for Canada to become the 51st state. He said Trump\u2019s pitch to annex Canada was not on the agenda of the Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Charlevoix, Quebec, but was pressed on the president\u2019s antagonism toward America\u2019s northern neighbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Canadian government has made their position clear. The president has made his argument clear as to why he thinks Canada would be better off joining as a state for economic purposes,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a disagreement between the two. That was not a topic of conversation, because that\u2019s not what this summit was about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubio said Trump\u2019s stance on Canada joining the U.S. came following a dinner conversation with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,<\/u><\/a> who warned of the economic costs on Canada by Trump\u2019s threats of tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt that point, the president said Canada should become a U.S. state. POTUS has made an argument about why Canada would be better off economically being a state, and I think that stands for itself,\u201d Rubio said, referring to the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

thehill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kirsten Hillman, Canadian ambassador to the U.S., said on Sunday that her country takes its sovereignty \u201cseriously\u201d as President Trump\u2002appears to be holding firm in his ambitions to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. In an interview on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d Fox News anchor Jacqui Heinrich asked whether Canada\u2019s new prime minister, former central banker Mark Carney, hasn\u2019t connected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1549,3401,32695,1230],"class_list":["post-39795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ambassador","tag-canada","tag-sovereign","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39797,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39795\/revisions\/39797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}