Canada’s Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s defense against President-elect Donald Trump’s taunts of Canada becoming the United States’ “51st State.”
Trump has repeatedly hounded Trudeau even as the struggling prime minister’s popularity has plummeted in Canada. The president-elect’s taunts came after weeks of threatening Canada with 25% tariffs and a demand to secure its border and stop illegal immigration into the United States.
Poilievre is the favorite to replace Trudeau as prime minister as soon as new parliamentary elections can be held. The Conservative Party leader in a statement Tuesday defended Canada against Trump’s calls to join the United States while simultaneously attacking Trudeau’s government and party for its feeble response.
“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period,” Poilievre said in a post on X. “We are a great and independent country.”
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“We are the best friend to the U.S. We spent billions of dollars and hundreds of lives helping Americans retaliate against Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. We supply the U.S. with billions of dollars of high-quality and totally reliable energy well below market prices. We buy hundreds of billions of dollars of American goods,” he continued. “Our weak and pathetic NDP-Liberal government has failed to make these obvious points.”
Poilievre summarized what his agenda would be as prime minister, promising to build up Canada’s military and strengthen its borders and immigration policies. He also promised to cut taxes and regulations and support economic development.
“In other words, we will put Canada First,” Poilievre said.
Canada will never be the 51st state. Period.
We are a great and independent country.
We are the best friend to the U.S. We spent billions of dollars and hundreds of lives helping Americans retaliate against Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. We supply the U.S. with billions of dollars of…
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) January 7, 2025
Hours before Poilievre’s post, Trudeau put out a short statement asserting that “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”
“Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner,” he added.
Poilievre’s Conservative Party is overwhelmingly favored to win an outright majority in Canada’s parliament in the next election. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) currently projects that the Conservative Party will win 227 of 338 total seats in the House of Commons. CBC projections show Conservatives with a 98% chance of winning a majority.
