Poilievre shuts down Trump’s 51st state proposition

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has strong-manned incoming President Donald Trump’s ongoing suggestion that Canada become the fifty-first state.

“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period,” said Poilievre.

The “joke” — which is starting to look like not so much of a joke after all — began when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scampered down to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the president-elect vowed to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian goods.

“If you don’t like it,” Trump told Trudeau at the time, “Canada can be the 51st state — and you can be the governor!”

Since then, the incoming president has continued to troll the prime minister. However, the “joke” continued even after Trudeau’s resignation on Monday.

On Tuesday afternoon, Trump told reporters the US could “economically force” Canada into being annexed by America.

Poilievre evidently caught wind of Trump’s musings and put his foot down.

“Canada will never be the 51st state,” wrote Poilievre on social media shortly after the video went viral.

“Period.”

“We are a great and independent country.”

The Tory leader said Canada and the US are best friends with a long history, including spending “billions of dollars and hundreds of lives” to help America “retaliate against Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks.”

“We supply the US with billions of dollars of high-quality and totally reliable energy well below market prices. We buy hundreds of billions of dollars of American goods,” he wrote.

“Our weak and pathetic NDP-Liberal government has failed to make these obvious points. I will fight for Canada.”

Trudeau also chimed in, protesting that Trump doesn't have a "snowball's chance in hell" in annexing Canada.