Trump repeats desire for Canada to become 51st state: ‘the people would love it’

Donald Trump says he would love to see Canada as a 51st stateSource Reuters

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00:00nation. Also, they've been very nasty to us on trade. Historically, Canada has been

00:04very, very bad to us, very unfair to us on trade, so we'll see how it all works out.

00:09I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadian citizens, if that

00:15happened, would get a very big tax cut, tremendous tax cut, because they're very

00:20highly taxed. And you wouldn't have to worry about military, you wouldn't have

00:25to worry about many of the things. You'd have better health coverage, you'd have

00:29much better health coverage. So I think the people of Canada would like it, you

00:33know, if it's explained. But just to start off, they'd have a very, they'd have a

00:36massive tax cut, and they'd have a lot more business, because then we'd let

00:41business go to Canada routinely, and there'd be no tariffs.