Minister LeBlanc Says He No Longer Views Trump’s 51st State Talk as a ‘Joke’

Minister LeBlanc Says He No Longer Views Trump’s 51st State Talk as a ‘Joke’
Then-Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc (C), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R), and Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly participate in a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Oct. 14, 2024. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
Noé Chartier
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He saw it as good-natured banter when it first landed, but now Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc is not laughing about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s repeated talk of the U.S. merging with Canada.

“I think he has gone much further than the idea of a joke,” LeBlanc said in French when speaking to reporters in Ottawa on Jan. 8 before the Liberal caucus meeting.

Noé Chartier
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Noé Chartier is a senior reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times. Twitter: @NChartierET
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