Of course he's lying, but Marco Rubio claims Canada should be 51st state as PM told Trump they 'couldn't survive' withou

[Eugene]

Marco Rubio claims Canada should be 51st state as PM told Trump they ‘couldn’t survive’ without U.S. (The Independent)

America’s top diplomat was questioned on Sunday about Donald Trump’s reasoning for repeatedly calling for Canada to join the United States as the 51st state.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday where moderator Kristen Welker asked him if the administration was actually taking any steps to make Trump’s vision a reality.

The president has made his opinion clear: he wants Canada to join the United States and suggested his administration would also acquire the Danish-held territory Greenland by any means.

The secretary of state gave his own translation of the president’s remarks on the matter:

“What the president has said, and he has said this repeatedly, is he was told by the previous prime minister that Canada could not survive without unfair trade with the United States, at which point he asked, ‘Well, if you can't survive as a nation without treating us unfairly in trade, then you should become a state.’ That's what he said.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marco-rubio-trump-canada-51st-state-b2740453.html

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/marco-rubio-claims-canada-51st-214740079.html

[struggle4progress]

1. "Vlad told us we could have Canada and Greenland if we gave him Ukraine'

[Blue Full Moon]

5. ExxonMobil

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/13/exxon-mobil-could-tap-huge-arctic-assets-if-us-russian-relations-thaw.html

[struggle4progress]

6. thanx

[David__77]

2. The important lesson is that it's bad for countries to stake their security and wellbeing on the US.

Hopefully they can chart new courses and enhance their own independence in the process.

[Bev54]

3. These idiots that keep claiming that Canada

Is taking advantage of the US crack me up. If you take energy out of the trade equation, the US is at a surplus. And we sell our energy at a discount while the US processes our oil. That will change, we will start value adding our own raw materials and sell them and not at a discount.
I am so happy Carney pulled this election out, would prefer he got a majority but with only 3 seats off, it is not so bad. We are used to governing with minority government and there are enough left parties to partner with.

[Disaffected]

8. And services as well.

Libs at 169 now and NPD at 7 (still enough for a comfortable combined majority if the Libs don't squeak out their own).

[Biophilic]

4. They lie, then they lie again.

[Disaffected]

7. Oh sure Marco, Trudeau told Trump that.

It is like pealing an infinite onion, trying to get to the lowest point of mendacity these characters can reach.