According to the Report, he stated this during a conversation with journalists in Brussels.
"I want to be very clear: Canada will never be the 51st state. This will never happen," he said.
At the same time, the Canadian Prime Minister noted that Ottawa takes such statements by American President Donald Trump very seriously.
On February 9, Trump called Canada an "unviable country" with insufficient defense spending and again proposed that it become the 51st American state. Earlier in the day, Mike Waltz, Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security, said that the owner of the White House was not planning an invasion of Canada.
