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Ontario’s Doug Ford prods Trump with sign rejecting ‘Lake America’ name
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Ford, who has made a habit of needling the US president, explained that the sign was erected to reaffirm the Great Lake’s name “in case President Trump — or anyone else — forgets”. “Long before President Trump, this lake was called Lake Ontario,” Ford said in his social media video.
On Saturday, Ford recorded a video of himself along the lake’s shore near Hamilton, Ontario, where he revealed a baby-blue, billboard-sized sign that reads “Lake Ontario” in large white letters. Since Trump took office for a second term in 2025, he has called for Canada to cede its sovereignty and become a US state, and has issued several waves of tariffs against the northern country.
With Canada and the US embroiled in a spiralling trade war, Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that changed how the US federal government would refer to the body of water. We’re going to go at him full steam,” Ford said about Trump during a Monday interview on a Toronto radio show.
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- On Saturday, Ford recorded a video of himself along the lake’s shore near Hamilton, Ontario, where he revealed a baby-blue, billboard-sized sign that reads “Lake Ontario” in large white letters.
- Ford, who has made a habit of needling the US president, explained that the sign was erected to reaffirm the Great Lake’s name “in case President Trump — or anyone else — forgets”.
- “Long before President Trump, this lake was called Lake Ontario,” Ford said in his social media video .
- With Canada and the US embroiled in a spiralling trade war, Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that changed how the US federal government would refer to the body of water.
- Since Trump took office for a second term in 2025, he has called for Canada to cede its sovereignty and become a US state, and has issued several waves of tariffs against the northern country.
- We’re going to go at him full steam,” Ford said about Trump during a Monday interview on a Toronto radio show.
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- Al Jazeeralink