Canadian businessman and investor Kevin O’Leary expressed interest in breaking a deal with US President-elect Donald Trump to create some sort of “economic reunion” between the US and Canada, stressing that at least half of Canada’s population would support such deal.
O’Leary, also a “Shark Tank” star, said that Canadians have been talking about this over the last two days. Canadians over the holidays, the last two days, have been talking about this,” O’Leary said of Trump’s proposal during an interview with Fox Business.
This follows after the US President repeatedly told the media that Canada must become “our 51st State”. O’Leary further mentioned he would visit Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to discuss his proposed assimilation with the US.
However, he noted that there would be many issues in the event that Canada wanted to join the US, adding that Trump’s interest “could be the beginning of an economic reunion.”
“Think about the power of putting the two economies together, erasing the border between Canada and the United States, and putting all that resource up to the northern borders where China and Russia are knocking on the door,” he stressed.
