Canada’s Backlash to Trump’s “51st State” Remark (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: President Trump started musing about Canada, the 51st state, wouldn't Canadians be better off? Canadians thought it was a joke. And then President Trump kept saying it. And even though Canadians kept saying, no, no, thank you. We're much better being Canadians. We are Canadians. We're very different from Americans. Then the Canadians stopped laughing and they started getting angry, really angry. And they started taking action. I was really struck that when I was home in Canada this summer, you still go to shops and they have on it, Made in Canada. I just published a book and the sticker is on it. A Canadian author by Canadian. They took American whiskey off the shelves. They took American bourbon off the shelves. And there's always been this little strain of being a little bit anti-American because they dominate Canada culturally, economically, financially, security-wise in so many ways. Of course, you'd be a little bit resentful of that. But all the while, you continue to consume American movies and American news. But that caused not just a rallying around the flag, but it also created the rise and rise of Mark Carney.