Canada’s prime minister gives Trump a history lesson after U.S. renames Lake Ontario

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney hit back at President Donald Trump Thursday after he signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” amid the countries’ trade war.

While Trump’s executive order can’t force its northern neighbor to adopt the name, Carney still took the opportunity to educate the masses about the history and meaning of the lake’s name.“The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big’,” Carney said in an X post Thursday afternoon. “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 also pointed to Canada’s changing relationship with the U.S. and made it clear that the Land of the Maple rejects the new name.