PoliticsCanada erects giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign as Trump renaming spat escalates

Canada put up a huge sign declaring “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” after the US government administratively renamed the lake “Lake America.” Donald Trump responded with a video showing himself replacing a Lake Ontario sign with one bearing his preferred name. The dispute has become the public face of an escalating US-Canada trade fight involving a 50% US tariff on Canadian steel and Ottawa’s retaliatory tariffs.

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