Mark Carney hits back after Donald Trump ‘renames’ Lake Ontario
In a social media post following Trump’s signing of an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, Carney said the lake’s original name dates back 400 years, long before Canada and the United States existed in their current forms. This name dates back more than 400 years, well before the Canadian Confederation and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America,” the Canadian prime minister wrote on X. “The name of Lake Ontario derives from the Wendat word « Ontari’io », which means « the lake is beautiful, the lake is great.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday (local time) rejected US President Donald Trump ’s move to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, declaring that the iconic water body would remain known as Lake Ontario “today and forever.
The move comes after Trump’s earlier decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” for use by the US government. Earlier reporting noted: Trump renames Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ amid US-Canada trade war US President Donald Trump has ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed “Lake America”, amid escalating trade tensions with Canada . Earlier reporting noted: “We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario effective immediately to Lake America,” the US President said as he signed the order at the White House. Earlier reporting noted: However, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected US President’s move, saying it would be called Lake Ontario “then, now and always.”
“We know that the United States is changing. Their trade relations, their foreign policy, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadian women and men also know that things must be called by their name, and this lake is called Lake Ontario – today and forever,” he added.