Doug Ford: Trump Really Wants To “Take Over Canada”

Politico reports:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is warning that Donald Trump’s recent remarks in the Oval Office are a reminder that the U.S. president really does have designs on Canada. “It’s not just words. He wants to do it,” Ford told an audience of policy leaders in Toronto on Thursday afternoon. “He wants to destroy our auto sector. He wants to destroy our manufacturing sector. He wants to try to take over Canada.”

Canada is in the homestretch of a snap election campaign that’s obsessed with one issue: the American president and the threat he poses to Canada’s economy and sovereignty. Trump’s return to the White House upturned the political landscape in Canada where, until January, the next election had been expected to oust a three-term Liberal government in favor of a Conservative Party led by Pierre Poilievre.

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