Ontario premier answers Trump’s ‘Lake America’ with giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign

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.

Key points

• Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Ontario, and posed for photographs.
• "Long after President Trump is gone, it will still be called Lake Ontario, " Ford remarked in a video posted on social media.
• Ford remarked Trump was trying to rename the lake as Ontario and Canada were "standing up for ourselves" and argued the name would outlast the president.
• The display followed Trump's executive order directing U.S.

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 regarding 18 feet (5.5 meters) above the ground – roughly two stories high. The message is repeated in French, one.

Meanwhile, the display followed Trump's executive order directing U.S. Federal agencies to call Lake Ontario "Lake America." After months of tariffs, threats to create Canada the 51st U.S. State and personal attacks on its leaders, the reaction in Canada has mixed defiance with mockery.

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