By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Author’s Introduction
The article below is of utmost relevance, specifically pertaining to President Donald Trump’s stance with regard to the Annexation of both Canada and Greenland.
We recall Donald Trump’s statement last December at his luxury Mar a – Lago residence, in a conversation with Canada’s former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
President Elect Donald Trump intimated in no uncertain terms that Prime Minister Trudeau should become Governor of the 51st state of the United States of America.
This was no joking matter. Canada described as the 51st State of the USA signifies the outright Annexation of Canada.
We will also recall the powerful statement of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in his Letter to Donald. “From One Old Guy to Another”.
A few days prior to Trump’s inauguration, Jean Chrétien in an open letter to Trump pointed to:
“The totally unacceptable insults and unprecedented threats to our very sovereignty from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump”.
“I have two very clear and simple messages. To Donald Trump, from one old guy to another: Give your head a shake! What could make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world … to join the United States?
I can tell you Canadians prize our independence. We love our country.
We also had the guts to say no to your country when it tried to drag us into a completely unjustified and destabilizing war in Iraq.”[March 2003] (complete text of letter)
Jean Chretien intimated with astute foresight what is now unfolding under the Trump Presidency:
“Now there is another existential threat.
And we once again need to reduce our vulnerability.
That is the challenge for this generation of political leaders “
That challenge is currently being addressed by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government in negotiations pertaining to Trump’s decision to impose (unilaterally) heavy tariffs on commodity trade with Canada.
In early March 2025, Trump threatened Canada and Mexico:
“US President Donald Trump said Thursday [February 28] tariffs of 25% on Mexican and Canadian goods are set to take effect on March 4,while also threatening to impose an additional 10% on Chinese imports on the same date.” (CNN emphasis added
The Annexation of Greenland
Ironically, on that same day, March 4 2025, President Donald Trump: “renewed his threat of using military force to annex Greenland“.
“saying in an NBC News interview he wouldn’t rule it out to make the self-governing Danish territory a part of the United States”
It’s the latest in Trump’s many comments about seizing control of the resource-rich island, which he insists the US needs for national security purposes.
“I don’t rule it out,” he told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in an interview that aired on Sunday. “I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything.”
The Annexation of Canada
President Trump has been persistent in his intent: As confirmed in an incisive October CBC report: the Annexation of Canada is so to speak “on the Table”.
“Is [Trump] trying to change political views in this country?
If so, that’s foreign interference,” said Dick Fadden, who also headed CSIS and served as national security adviser to former prime minister Stephen Harper.” (CBC)
A recent report by the Globe and Mail (October 3, 2025) examines the Annexation issue in detail. Professor Franklyn Griffiths intimates that “A Trump Annexation would likely start in the North”
In other words, it would have an impact on “Canada’s maritime sovereignty”.
“Canada needs to consider the possibility that U.S. President Donald Trump will soon, and without our permission, send American warships into and through the waterways of the Canadian Arctic archipelago, commonly known as the Northwest Passage.
We owe it to ourselves to imagine what an imminent show of American force (rather than an invasion) would mean. We should also use the prospect to deal with and not write off Mr. Trump’s threats to annex us.” (Professor Griffiths)
“Starting in the North” is Déjà vu
The issue of annexation of Canada –which is now being cautiously addressed by the Canadian media– goes back to 2004. It relates to the instatement of US Northern Command.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien refused to negotiate with Bush Adminstration, more specifically with Donald Rumsfeld. He resigned in 2004 in the wake of the war on Iraq. A new Prime Minister was appointed.
That same year, I addressed the issue in an article entitled: Is the Annexation of Canada part of Bush’s Military Agenda? (November 23, 2004) (which at the time was the object of censorship by the Canada’s mainstream media).
Canada’s media was mum on the process of US Militarization of Canada under USNORTHCOM.
Most Canadians are totally unaware that under the clauses of US Northern Command, which were accepted and by Prime Minister Paul Martin the U.S. had acquired the de facto right to “invade” both Canada and Mexico. (see map below).
Canada’s Sovereignty in Jeopardy: “51st State”, Déjà Vu: The Militarization of North America under President Donald Trump
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 04, 2025
The map below reveals the territory of USNORTHCOM, which allows the US military to deploy from southern border of Mexico and part of the Caribbean up to the North West territories and Canada’s Artic, not to mention the strategic waterways in Canada’ Northern territories.
51st State is “No joking matter”
On October 8, Prime Minister Carney meets President Trump in Washington D.C.
On a positive side:
“The Prime Minister and the President welcomed the progress achieved to date in building a new economic and security relationship between their nations. Canada currently has the best trade agreement of any U.S. trading partner, with 85% of Canada-U.S. trade now tariff-free, and our cooperation is further improving border security” (pm-gc-ca PM of Canada)
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17 October 2025
Source: globalresearch.ca