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"Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the US
government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the Ontario premier
erecting a giant sign saying “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” – and the American
president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that sign, erecting
a replacement saying Lake America, and dancing to YMCA.
Rhetoric over the naming of Lake Ontario is the public face of an escalating
trade dispute between the US and its northern neighbor involving a 50% US
tariff on Canadian steel and retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa.
Trump’s order for the US government to refer to Lake Ontario as Lake America by
Sunday had at least one prominent impact. Google Maps had changed Lake
Ontario’s name to Lake America for US users to reflect the president’s
executive renaming order.
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has flat-out rejected the renaming,
explaining that Lake Ontario derives from an Indigenous Wendat word meaning
“the lake is beautiful, the lake is great” that dates back more than 400
years."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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