Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to make an announcement Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after appearing on another U.S. network to rebuff incoming president Donald Trump’s threat of acquiring Canada“I get it. President-elect Trump is a real estate tycoon. He’s made billions. But that property is not for sale. It’s as simple as that,” Ford told Fox News’ Jesse Watters Tuesday night.Ford has made a number of U.S. network television appearance touting the importance of the Canada-U.S.
His appearance on Fox News came after a Tuesday press conference in which Trump said he was considering using “ ” to acquire Canada as a U.S. asset and later shared a map of the two countries with the American flag covering both on social media.In the interview, Watters told Ford that Canada should consider “consider it a privilege to be taken over by the United States of America” and even said that he finds it “personally offensive” that Canadians seem to find that concept “repellant.”“I have a better idea, Jesse.
Trump has threatened to impose a 25 per cent tax on Canadian and Mexican goods on the day he takes office and many economists have warned that the effect of that could be particularly devastating on Ontario due to the $400 billion in two-way trade between this province and the U.S.south of the border, among other retaliatory tariffs, if Trump follows through with his threats.CP24.