# This Week in Washington: As Canada-US trade war escalates, Trump focuses on renaming Lake Ontario

https://mins.news/en/video/35828

- Global News, 2026-08-28 15:04 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-vLHqoEYvA

> U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” within the United States, his latest move against Canada after trade talks collapsed last week. Experts noted that the name Lake Ontario appeared on maps more than a century before U.S. independence and before Ontario became a province.

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- [Canada US trade and tariff tensions](https://mins.news/en/topic/canada-us-trade-tensions) — Markdown: https://mins.news/en/topic/canada-us-trade-tensions.md

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