Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary says Canadians are interested in Trump’s offer to merge US, Canada: ‘They want to hear more’

Kevin O’Leary is supporting Donald Trump’s proposal to merge Canada with the US. The Shark Tank star’s curiosity in serving to dealer such a deal comes after the president-elect stated Canada must be “our 51st state.” In an interview with Fox Enterprise on Thursday, the 70-year-old stated that at the very least half of his countrymen again the thought and “need to hear extra” about it.

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary helps Donald Trump’s proposal to make Canada ‘51st’ US state

“Canadians over the vacations – the final two days – have been speaking about this,” O’Leary stated of Trump’s proposal. “They need to hear extra,” he added. The Canadian businessman’s assertion comes on the heels of the longer term commander-in-chief calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “governor” of the “Nice State of Canada.”

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Throughout his Thursday interview, O’Leary admitted that “there’s clearly plenty of points” that may come up if Canada accepted Trump’s supply to merge with the US. Nonetheless, he stated that the president-elect’s curiosity within the matter “could possibly be the start of an financial union.”

The Montreal-born businessman went on to say, “Take into consideration the facility of mixing the 2 economies, erasing the border between Canada and the US and placing all that useful resource as much as the northern borders the place China and Russia are knocking on the door.”

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“So safe [the northern territories], give a typical forex, work out taxes throughout the board, get all the things buying and selling each methods, create a brand new, virtually EU-like passport – I like this concept,” he continued, including that “at the very least half of Canadians have an interest.”

O’Leary additionally shared that the main concern in Canada in the meanwhile is the “collapsing” authorities beneath Liberal Social gathering PM Trudeau. “No person desires Trudeau to barter this deal. I don’t need him doing it for me. So I’m going to go to Mar-A-Lago. I’ll begin the narrative,” the investor argued, including, “The 41 million Canadians, I believe most of them would belief me on this deal.”