PM Justin Trudeau Jokes About Americans Moving to Canada

Our southern neighbours are none too happy about the prospect of President Donald Trump, so much so that the Google search term "how to move to Canada" has surged in popularity in the United States.

Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in on the fun. As he joked yesterday (March 7) during a global town hall, "Cape Breton is lovely, all times of the year," referencing a website which invites Americans to seek refuge on the small island.

Trudeau on the presidential election

"I'm not going to pick a fight with Donald Trump right now. But I'm not going to support him either, obviously," explained Trudeau, adding, "I prefer to trust that my American friends will exercise their democratic rights with a level of the wisdom of crowds that always ends up coming through in a democracy."

As he told Huffington Post Canada, "I'm not going to weigh in on various candidates. My job as prime minister is going to be to work with whoever gets elected ... And the relationship between Canada and the United States on an economic, on a cultural, on a social level, is too important for me to start picking fights with anyone right now."

"There have been lots of times in the past where the ideologies of president and prime minister haven't perfectly matched up, and where there's been a very constructive and positive relationship. Quite frankly, that's what both Americans and Canadians expect of their leaders, and that's what I'll be working hard to do."

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