‘Lake Ontario now and always’ — Canadian PM Carney rejects Trump’s executive order

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rejected US
President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake
America”.

 

Trump signed the order on Thursday amid an ongoing trade war
between the US and Canada.

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes and straddles
the Canada-US border, with Ontario to its north and New York to its south.

The order said that with “the deepest parts of the Lake’s
waters lying within United States territory, the United States claims most of
the Lake’s volume”.

It added that the lake has “long been an integral asset to
American exploration, settlement, commerce, and defence”.

In a statement countering the US order, Carney noted that
the lake had its name before Canada and the US became states.

“The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontario,
which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big” The name
is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America,” Carney said.

“We know that America is changing. Their trading
relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their
hydronyms.

“Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it
Lake Ontario – then, now and always.”

Geographical names are not controlled by one worldwide
authority. As such, it is uncertain whether Trump’s order will take effect
outside the US.

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