{"id":2408272,"date":"2025-03-01T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/call-from-white-house-to-redraw-canadian-border-absorb-northern-land-as-51st-state-report\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T09:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:47:31","slug":"call-from-white-house-to-redraw-canadian-border-absorb-northern-land-as-51st-state-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/call-from-white-house-to-redraw-canadian-border-absorb-northern-land-as-51st-state-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Call from White House to Redraw Canadian Border, Absorb Northern Land as 51st State: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcall-from-white-house-to-redraw-canadian-border-absorb-northern-land-as-51st-state-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2408272&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article\u2063 discusses tensions between the United States and Canada\u2062 amid trade negotiations, particularly highlighting controversial comments made by President Donald Trump&#8217;s adviser, Peter Navarro,\u2063 who\u2062 suggested redrawing the Canada-U.S. border. This proposal was met with incredulity, described as &#8220;crazy and dangerous&#8221; by\u200b sources involved in the negotiations.\u200c The report indicates that Canada is hesitant to engage in\u200c discussions until new U.S. trade\u2062 representatives, Jamieson Greer and Howard Lutnick, are confirmed,\u200d as they are seen as more moderate\u2064 compared to Navarro.The \u200dpiece argues that Navarro might potentially be <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">excessively influencing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-make-china-pay\/\" title=\"How to Make China Pay\">trade talks<\/a> due<\/a> to a lack of competition, positioning his extreme views without rebuttal until \u2062the new representatives are in\u200c place. Historical context is \u200dprovided, noting\u200b longstanding agreements that have defined the current border, which has remained unchanged for over a century. \u200bThe article includes Trump&#8217;s views \u200don the U.S.-Canada\u200c relationship,referring to\u200d it as lopsided,and recalls past conflicts\u2063 and treaties that have shaped the\u2062 border&#8217;s history.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Inch by inch, the tale does go, America would like to grow. Canadians say no, no, no, or at least so says a new report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid President Donald Trump&rsquo;s repeated invocation of Canada as the 51<sup>st<\/sup> state, a report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/politics\/2025\/02\/27\/white-house-canadian-border-trump-trudeau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> says Trump adviser Peter Navarro wants to redraw the border between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navarro is pushing U.S. negotiators in trade talks to put a new border on the table, the report said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;Navarro recommended revising the Canada-U.S. border, which is just crazy and dangerous,&rdquo; what the Telegraph called &ldquo;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wipeout-reboot-contestant-died-of-heart-attack-says-coroner\/\" title=\"\u2018Wipeout\u2019 Reboot Contestant Died Of Heart Attack, Says Coroner\">source close<\/a> to negotiations&rdquo; was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/maga-took-center-stage-us-vs-canada-telecast-nothing-espn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a> has decided to scurry in a hurry from the talks, hoping that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Jamieson Greer, who Trump has nominated to be his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-band-of-lawmakers-discusses-household-supply-chains-at-whitened-house\/\" title=\"Bipartisan band of lawmakers discusses household supply chains at Whitened House\">trade representative<\/a>, will steer talks in a more comfortable direction.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Telegraph report said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/flashback-watch-canadas-version-trump-reduce-inept-reporter-stammering-mess-just-11-seconds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadians<\/a> view Lutnick and Greer as &ldquo;less extreme.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greer was <a href=\"https:\/\/ustr.gov\/about-us\/policy-offices\/press-office\/press-releases\/2025\/february\/us-senate-confirms-jamieson-greer-united-states-trade-representative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> on Wednesday. Lutnick was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/howard-lutnick-trump-tariffs-commerce-department-9788590bbee10d09d3cb91822b0c9687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;The Canadians have told their people to hold off negotiating with the U.S. government until Jamieson Greer and Howard Lutnick are confirmed by the Senate and in post,&rdquo; the source said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Telegraph said its source framed Navarro as pushing an agenda while Greer and Lutnick were not yet on board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;Peter Navarro is in post, and he is taking advantage of being there by himself with no one else in post to challenge his extreme positions. This will change as soon as the many other trade and economic positions are filled,&rdquo; the source said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;By default of no competition, he is temporarily ruling the roost.&rdquo; the source added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-gets-involved-ahead-epic-usa-vs-canada-championship-hockey-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> has said he believes America&rsquo;s relationship with Canada is lopsided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;We protect Canada, but it&rsquo;s not fair. It&rsquo;s not fair that they&rsquo;re not paying their way, and if they had to pay their way they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-democrats-stole-votes-for-joe-biden-from-every-developmentally-disabled-person-in-milwaukee-homes-she-spoke-with\/\" title=\"Whistleblower: Democrats Stole Votes for Joe Biden from Every Developmentally Disabled Person in Milwaukee Homes She Spoke With\">couldn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t exist,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current border has been in place for more than a century, as noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalhistory.uh.edu\/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&amp;psid=3262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 finalized the boundaries between Canada and Maine as well as the section of the border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pacific Northwest boundary was not settled until later, when the 1846 Oregon Treaty drew the land boundary between the two nations along the 49<sup>th<\/sup> parallel, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/oregon-treaty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 1859 Pig War, which began in a dispute over a pig killed on the U.S. side of the border, brought conflict to the Vancouver Islands off of Washington state until the dispute was resolved in America&rsquo;s favor with the pig being the sole casualty. George Pickett, later of Civil War fame at Gettysburg, commanded some of the American forces in the squabble, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/sajh\/learn\/historyculture\/the-pig-war.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Efforts to invade Canada from western New York in the name of Irish Fenians took place between 1866 and 1871, but ended in failure, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/irish-american-civil-war-veterans-attack-canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As noted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org\/Learn-About-TR\/TR-Encyclopedia\/Foreign%20Affairs\/Alaska%20Border%20Dispute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theodore Roosevelt Center<\/a>, it was not until 1903 that most of the Alaska-Canada border issues were resolved.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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In light of President Donald Trump&#8217;s frequent references to Canada as the 51st state, The Telegraph reports that Trump advisor Peter Navarro is advocating for a reconfiguration of the border between the two nations. Navarro is urging U.S. negotiators in trade discussions to consider a new border arrangement. A source close to negotiations described Navarro&#8217;s suggestion as &#8220;crazy and dangerous.&#8221; Consequently, Canada has decided to withdraw from talks quickly, hoping that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Jamieson Greer\u2014Trump&#8217;s nominee for trade representative\u2014will guide discussions in a more favorable direction. The report indicates that Canadians perceive Lutnick and Greer as &#8220;less extreme,&#8221; with Greer confirmed on Wednesday and Lutnick last week. According to the source, Canada has instructed its representatives to pause negotiations until both Greer and Lutnick are officially in their roles. The Telegraph noted that while Navarro is currently pushing his agenda without opposition due to unfilled positions, this situation will change once other trade roles are filled. Trump has expressed his belief that America&#8217;s relationship with Canada is imbalanced, stating it\u2019s unfair for Canada not to contribute equally given U.S. protection over them\u2014a sentiment echoed throughout history regarding border disputes dating back over a century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2408273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-47.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51338,51337,51340,51339,32127],"class_list":["post-2408272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-51st-state","tag-canadian-border","tag-geopolitical-report","tag-northern-land","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-47.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408276,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408272\/revisions\/2408276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}