# ‘Where does this idiocy stop?’ Bob Rae on Trump’s latest threat

https://mins.news/en/video/31634

- CBC News, 2026-08-25 12:59 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALTnyPnHcq4

> Bob Rae, Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations, discussed the “historic mess” of Canada’s trade dispute with the U.S. after President Donald Trump’s latest threat to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.”

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