Fox News host Jesse Watters told Ontario Premier Doug Ford that Canadians should consider it “a privilege to be taken over” by the United States as “everybody else in the world wants” American citizenship.
“I used to love the idea of gobbling up Canada. Vast energy reserves, doubling our geography, we’d never lose another Winter Olympics. But do we really want to add that many liberals to our population?” said Watters on Tuesday’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “I’d still like to add stars to our flag and Canada does seem ripe for the picking. Maybe we just take Saskatchewan and Alberta, because the fact that they don’t want to become part of America makes me want to make them.”
Watters then introduced Ford to the show before asking, “What’s your problem with the United States absorbing Canada?”
“Well, first of all, Jesse, I love the U.S., I love Americans, and I get it. You know, President-elect Trump is a real estate tycoon, he’s made billions,” replied Ford. “But that property is not for sale. It’s as simple as that.”
Watters shot back, “You say this isn’t for sale, but everything has a price. The Million Dollar Man says that. Can you think of this more as a merger instead of an acquisition? Don’t think about being
“We can come together on a great trade deal,” Ford declared. “There’s not one American that I speak to out there, Jesse, that has a problem with Canada. Do you know what the problem is? China’s the problem.”
Watters proceeded to take offense at Ford’s reluctance to see his country become absorbed by the United States.
“You say that Americans don’t have a problem with Canadians, and we don’t, but it seems like you have a problem with us, because if I were a citizen of another country and I was a neighbor of the United States, I would consider it a privilege to be taken over by the United States of America,” the Fox News host remarked. “That’s what everybody else in the world wants, American citizenship. For some reason, that’s repellant to you Canadians, and I find that personally offensive.”
“Well you know something, Jesse? We’re proud Canadians just like there’s proud Americans, and if we join together and take on the world with a great trade deal between us, I think that’d be fabulous,” Ford concluded. “No one can stop us.”
In recent months, President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state of the United States.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shot back at Trump’s taunts on Tuesday, declaring, “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”
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