‘Shark Tank’ Star Tells Fox He’s Going to Mar-a-Lago to Pitch Trump on Merging US and Canada
Canadian businessman and Shark Tank television personality Kevin O’Leary told Fox Business he is going down to Mar-a-Lago to pitch President-elect Donald Trump on joining the U.S. in an economic union with Canada.
Recently, Trump floated the idea of annexing Canada in exchange for lowering their tariffs and also referred to the country’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” of the 51st state.
During a Thursday interview on Fox Business, O’Leary said Trump should erase the borders between Canada and the U.S. by creating an economic union between the two countries. O’Leary also noted the economic merger should create a common currency and start a new “almost EU like passport: for the U.S. and Canada.”
The Canadian businessman then claimed that “half of Canadians are interested in the union,” but do not want Trudeau to negotiate the deal.
There’s 41 million Canadians, basically the population of California sitting on the world’s largest amounts of all resources, including the most important energy and water. Canadians, over the holidays, the last two days have been talking about this. They want to hear more. And so, you know, there’s obviously a lot of issues and more details. But what this could be is the beginning of an economic union.
Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and the United States and putting all that resource up to the northern borders where China and Russia are knocking on the door. So secure that give a common currency, figure out taxes across the board, get everything trading both ways, create a new, almost EU like passport. I like this idea and at least half of Canadians are interested. The problem is the government’s collapsing Canada right now. Nobody wants Trudeau to negotiate this deal. I don’t want him doing it for me. So I’m going to go to Mar a Lago. I’ll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal.
In recent weeks, Trump’s threats of leveraging heavy tariffs on both Canada and Mexico have been met with anger in both countries. The premier of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, ripped into Trump in mid-December and promised to totally cut off energy supplies to the U.S. should Trump make good on his threat.
“We will go to the full extent depending how far this goes. We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters. “I don’t want this to happen, but my No. 1 job is to protect Ontario, Ontarians, and Canadians as a whole since we’re the largest province.” Mexico and Canada are the two largest trading partners for the U.S. — with Canada being a major importer of key building materials and energy into the country.
Watch the clip above via Fox Business.
