Ontario Premier Doug Ford countered President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to make Canada the 51st state of the Union — by making an offer to purchase two American states.
At a press conference Monday, the senior Canadian official got testy when a reporter asked if he thought Trump was serious with his talk of the United States taking control of its economically dependent northern neighbor, Canada.
“To the president, I’ll make him a counteroffer. How about if we buy Alaska? And we’ll throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time?” Ford said. “You know, it’s not realistic.”
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