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Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a swipe at US President Donald Trump after Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in the Four Nations Face-Off final on Thursday.
“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” Trudeau posted on X shortly after the victory in the ice hockey match held in Boston.
Trudeau’s post came just hours after Trump repeated his wish for Canada to become the US’s “51st state” and encouraged the US hockey team to win the match.
“I’ll be calling our GREAT American Hockey Team this morning to spur them on towards victory tonight against Canada, which with FAR LOWER TAXES AND MUCH STRONGER SECURITY, will someday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important, Fifty First State,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“I will be speaking before the Governors tonight in D.C., and will sadly, therefore, be unable to attend. But we will all be watching, and if Governor Trudeau would like to join us, he would be most welcome. Good luck to everybody, and have a GREAT game tonight. So exciting,” he added.
Canada and the US have faced each other 20 times in best-on-best tournaments since the 1976 Canada Cup, with Canada winning 14 of those matchups. The US has not won a best-on-best title since defeating Canada in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey final.
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Donald Trump, who returned to power last month after defeating Democrat Kamala Harris, has often referred to Canada as the “51st state” and mocked Trudeau as just a US state governor.
Tensions between the two countries escalated when Trump imposed 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports. However, on February 4, he delayed the start of the tariffs for a month after Canada agreed to tighten border measures and combat the drug crisis, particularly fentanyl.
Gill Bikram Singh