Trump told Trudeau he wants to renegotiate the border

Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico (or tried to) and now he wants to take over parts of Canada (if not the whole thing).

Today the New York Times reveals the contents of an early-February call between Trump and Trudeau today:

He told Mr. Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary. He offered no further explanation.

The border treaty Mr. Trump referred to was established in 1908 and finalized the international boundary between Canada, then a British dominion, and the United States.

Mr. Trump also mentioned revisiting the sharing of lakes and rivers between the two nations, which is regulated by a number of treaties, a topic he’s expressed interest about in the past.

Canadian officials took Mr. Trump’s comments seriously, not least because he had already publicly said he wanted to bring Canada to its knees. In a news conference on Jan. 7, before being inaugurated, Mr. Trump, responding to a question by a New York Times reporter about whether he was planning to use military force to annex Canada, said he planned to use “economic force.”

It’s not clear what is on the agenda here and where but there are some strict treaties about drawing water from the Great Lakes, for instance.

The report also highlights that a number of grievances around these things and NORAD have repeatedly come up, making Canadian officials think Trump is serious.

This article was written by Adam Button at www.forexlive.com.