China’s proficiency at soft power or lack there of has nothing to do with the dumpster fire known as the second Trump presidency. Please stay on topic.
“I suggest that not only does the Trump Administration know how many critical minerals we have but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state,” the prime minister told a Toronto gathering of Canadian company executives, industry and union leaders on Friday morning.
“They’re very aware of our resources, of what we have and they very much want to be able to benefit from those,” Trudeau said in answer to a question from the floor, after media had been ushered out of the room.
“But Mr. Trump has it in mind that one of the easiest ways of doing that is absorbing our country. And it is a real thing.”
Trudeau continued to talk about “my conversation with” the president, but his comments — inadvertently broadcast after media were ordered out of the session where he had opened the economic summit — were cut off.
A worker was ordered to pull the plug on the speaker after staff realized the session was audible.
There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.