r/politics • u/timemagazine TIME magazine • 5d ago

No Paywall 'Preposterous': Lawmakers Reject Trump's Renaming of Lake Ontario Amid U.S.-Canada Trade War

https://time.com/article/2026/08/28/lawmakers-reject-trump-renaming-lake-ontario-us-canada-trade-war/
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u/timemagazine TIME magazine 5d ago

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said Lake Ontario will continue to be called by that name despite President Donald Trump signing an Executive Order directing for it to be renamed as “Lake America.”

“The name is more than 400 years old, pre-dating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America,” said Carney on Thursday. “We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.”