# The American push to keep the name ‘Lake Ontario’

https://mins.news/en/video/40670

- CBC News, 2026-09-01 16:38 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA068_6D3qo

> Democratic Congressman Tim Kennedy, who represents Buffalo and Niagara Falls, has introduced the “Hands Off Our Great Lakes” bill. It seeks to reverse Donald Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”

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