Canadian PM Mark Carney is rejecting Trump’s plan to rename Lake Ontario, citing its historic name.<\/p>\n
Trump wants to call it “Lake America” as a deepening trade fight strains US-Canada relations.<\/p>\n
Other Canadian leaders have pushed back, insisting Lake Ontario’s name isn’t changing.<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rejected Donald Trump’s <\/a>move to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,”<\/a> pointing to the lake’s Indigenous name and centuries of history.<\/p>\n “The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big,” Carney wrote in a Thursday post on X.<\/a><\/p>\n Carney said the name is more than 400 years old, predating both Canadian Confederation and the US Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n Carney’s comments came as Trump signed an executive order Thursday signed an executive order<\/a> that he said would “immediately” rename the body of water to “Lake America.”<\/p>\n Carney framed the move as part of broader changes taking place in the US.<\/p>\n “We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms,” Carney wrote.<\/p>\n “Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario \u2014 then, now and always,” he added.<\/p>\n The development comes amid a deepening trade dispute between the two close trading partners.<\/p>\n Trade negotiations broke down last week, and new 50% US tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian imports took effect Saturday.<\/p>\n Trump has separately threatened additional 50% tariffs on Canadian automotive imports and steel beginning January 1.<\/p>\n Canada is planning for dollar-for-dollar retaliation beginning September 8.<\/p>\n