Minister of Industry of Canada: ‘We’ll always call it Lake Ontario’

Canadian Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly rebuffed President Trump’s warning to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” on Tuesday amid his trade war with Canada, saying Canadians will “always call it Lake Ontario.”

“We’re proud of our Great Lakes,” Joy told reporters during a Tuesday press conference. “We’ve navigated the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, for thousands of years and it was part of a foundation of our country. And we’ll just stand up for what we have.”

Met with applause, Joy added that, while “all these shenanigans are happening, we’ll just be smart and we’ll be strategic and we’ll fight back.”

Trump’s warning resembles his 2025 executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a move he described at the time as retaliation against the U.S.’s southern neighbor for “allowing millions of people to pour into our country.” 

He doubled down on his latest threat with a post on Instagram, shared by the official White House account, of a U.S. map —........

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