Doug Ford responds to Trump's 'Lake America' with giant Lake Ontario sign
Ontario Premier Doug Ford installed a large sign asserting the name 'Lake Ontario' in response to a U.S. executive order attempting to rename the body of water 'Lake America.' Canadian officials and historians have largely responded to the move with mockery and defiance.
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This highlights ongoing diplomatic tensions and the use of symbolic gestures in international relations between Canada and the U.S.
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TORONTO (AP) — Ontario Premier Doug Ford answered President Donald Trump’s “Lake America” decree Saturday with a billboard-sized message on the Canadian shoreline — “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” — as Canadian leaders met the move with ridicule rather than outrage.
Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Ontario, and posed for photographs. The 24-by-12-foot (7.3-by-3.6 meter) sign stands on 6-foot (1.8-meter) legs, putting its top about 18 feet (5.5 meters) above the ground — roughly two stories high. The message is repeated in French, one
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