‘I doubt if I’ll ever cross the U.S. border again in my lifetime’: Trump’s annexation talk, Hoekstra’s remarks draw fire from former MPs, political players

“Does he [Hoekstra] take Canadians for fools? We’re no fools,” said Wayne Easter, a former cabinet minister who served as an MP for about three decades, in an interview with The Hill Times. Easter was also once chair of the Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group. “Once trust is broken, it’s broken. Trump has managed to break that trust … Basically, trying to make us enemies, and his [Trump’s] thoughts on the 51st state, it wouldn’t befit language for me to tell you what I think of my opinion of him stating that…