More than 36,000 people have signed an Ottawa parliamentary petition to ban the US President Donald Trump of Canada to constantly threaten the country’s sovereignty.
Gerard Aldridge, an Alberta resident, who recently launched electronic petition, said he was a fiercely proud Canadian who saw the opportunity to make a difference on a serious concern.
“I was born Canadian and I want to die a Canadian,” said Aldridge in an interview on Wednesday.
Trump threatened to impose generalized prices on Canadian products and openly called Canada to become an American state.
The American president generally attended the annual gathering of G7 leaders, which takes place in June in Kananaskis, Alta.
The petition points out that Trump was found guilty of crimes in the United States – something that could make an unacceptable person in Canada.
He maintains that Trump’s words and actions represent a danger to Canada’s security and sovereignty.
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“I don’t think it deserves to be in our country, whether president or not,” said Aldridge.
“We must be, as a country, a lot together on this subject.”
Aldridge was a liberal member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly in the 1990s, although he says that he is currently not belonging to a political party.
His petition is sponsored by the deputy for New Democrat Charlie Angus, a vocal critic of Trump.
Angus also recently sponsored a parliamentary petition calling for the revocation of the Canadian citizenship of the billionaire Elon Musk on his role in the Trump administration.
During a speech on Wednesday in Montreal on Wednesday, the chief of the NPD, Jagmeet Singh, said: “We must prohibit Donald Trump from attending the G7 summit”.
Canada should rather use the summit as an opportunity to work with allies on a plan to resist Trump and his “dangerous threats to the world,” said Singh.
“Why would we invite someone who threatened our very democracy, our very sovereignty?” He asked. “Why would we invite someone who threatened our economic well-being?”
The Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, said that Canada should find ways to work with the Americans.
“We are not going to cut ourselves in a way and float in the ocean. They will be our neighbors in the future, “he said on Wednesday.
“I do not think that the simple fact of trying to throw the president of the G7 is a particularly constructive approach.”
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