Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Canada took a few minutes to exploit his reaction to The victory of his nation over the United StatesS in a final of the international hockey championship Thursday in Boston.
“You cannot have our country – and you cannot take our game”, Mr. Trudeau Written on x.
Before the matchThe issues were raised for Canada, the birthplace of hockey. For weeks, President Trump threatened to devastate the Canadian economy with prices and to mock the nation in a mocking way by suggesting that it becomes the 51st state of the United States.
Mr. Trudeau’s rapid response after the game has exploited Anger that simmered Canada since Trump took office on January 20. His message has been taken over from the whole political aisle. “The real north, strong, free and gilded”, Pierre Hairyvre, chief of the opposition of Canada, Written on x.
Political tensions have spread in sports arenas for weeks; The US national anthem was horny in the NBA and NHL matches in Canada.
It did not dissuade Mr. Trump from repeating his mockery before the championship match.
“I think they have to become the 51st state,” he said during a speech Thursday in Washington. “And you have heard the hueting the national anthem, but I think in the end, they will rent the national anthem.”
Trump then called Mr. Trudeau as “governor”, which he has often done in recent weeks.
Trump also called the American team to express their support. At the White House, his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said he was looking forward to watching the match. “And we look forward to the United States to beat our next 51st state, Canada”, ” She said.
Later, there were hoots at the Boston Arena while Chantal Kreviazuk, a Canadian musician, sang “O Canada”.
There was also a twist in his interpretation. She changed the words “in us all the orders” by “that we alone command us”. Mrs Kreviazuk said on Instagram that the change was in response to the conversation on the annexation.
The repeated excavations of Mr. Trump had a unifying effect in Canada, forging a rare consensus among the public and the political class despite the country which crosses one of its most divided political periods in recent history.
A survey published last month Through the Angus Reid Institute, a research center, found that 90% of Canadian respondents were opposed to being part of the United States.
Last Friday, Trump had not yet responded to Mr. Trudeau’s message.
