Canadian ambassador to US on Trump's 51st state remarks: 'We take seriously our sovereignty'

Source: The Hill

03/16/25 5:07 PM ET


Kirsten Hillman, Canadian ambassador to the U.S., said on Sunday that her country takes its sovereignty “seriously” as President Trump appears to be holding firm in his ambitions to make Canada the 51st U.S. state.

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Fox News anchor Jacqui Heinrich asked whether Canada’s new prime minister, former central banker Mark Carney, hasn’t connected yet with Trump because of the U.S. president’s remarks about making Canada the 51st state.

“I think we take seriously our sovereignty. We take seriously the will of Canadians, and over 91 percent of Canadians are, you know, not interested in a discussion around joining the U.S.,” Hillman said. “So I think he takes that seriously.

“And that’s not a slight to the president, and that’s not a slight to the American people,” she continued. “It’s an expression of our own patriotism and our own sense of who we are as a country.”

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