Ontario Premier Doug Ford answered President Donald Trump’s “Lake America” decree Saturday with a billboard-sized message on the Canadian shoreline — “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” — as Canadian leaders met the move with ridicule rather than outrage.
Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Ontario, and posed for photographs. The 24-by-12-foot (7.3-by-3.6 meter) sign stands on 6-foot (1.8-meter) legs, putting its top about 18 feet (5.5 meters) above the ground — roughly two stories high. The message is repeated in French, one
The display followed Trump’s executive order directing U.S. federal agencies to call Lake Ontario “Lake America.” After months of tariffs, threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state and personal attacks on its leaders, the reaction in Canada has mixed defiance with mockery.
It’s the exact sort of childish bullshit that we should expect from an ignorant moron like Ford. Everyone else went “OK, whatever” and ignored the whole thing because it’s childish bullshit, and then Ford had to go and validate the whole thing by building a sign to prove just how much it definitely absolutely 100% for sure did not bother him no sir not even in the slightest. This is literally the exact response Trump is looking for.