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Both Canada and the United States are Nato members and have treaty obligations of mutual defense under the North Atlantic Treaty, the Ogdensburg Agreement and numerous other treaties.

Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton found herself on the wrong end of social media criticism after taking issue with President Donald Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario amid a heated trade war with Canada.

“I believe the Great Lakes are the Great Lakes and should stay Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario. I mean, unless you’re suggesting we name Lake Michigan Lake Wisconsin,” Tiffany told local news station WISN 12 at a campaign event on Thursday.

It also led to a dispute between Mexico and tech giant Google, which renamed the gulf in its maps application. , external

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The move is causing some Republicans to push back against Trump, like Senator Susan Collins from Maine, who is in a tight reelection race. Earlier this week, she called the tariffs on Canada a mistake

That doesn’t explain the trade war itself, though. Unfortunately, when my colleague, noted Canadian resident Zack Beauchamp, went looking earlier this week, he couldn’t find an explanation either. As he writes, there’s absolutely no constituency for this fight — other than Trump’s own imperial desires as he keeps joking-but-maybe-not-joking about making Canada the 51st state.

Trump called reporters into the Oval Office to announce the move, while the White House made the name change official in a social media post.

Despite a long history of strong allyship, the two countries in recent days have issued retaliatory tariffs, while Trump has threatened an all out trade war, suggesting it would be good for the American economy.

Trump said that over the past 15 years, the U.S. has been losing an average of $6o billion a year to Canada.