# Would US troops fire on Canadian civilians?

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**Created:** [February 8, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-us-troops-fire-on-canadian-civilians/1014046 "2025-02-08T11:58:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-us-troops-fire-on-canadian-civilians/1014046/418 "2025-02-28T20:33:23Z")

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They actually think that they can get away with [annexation demands](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/02/27/white-house-canadian-border-trump-trudeau/):

> A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state”.  
> [Peter Navarro](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/17/trumps-top-china-adviser-peter-navarro-regularly-quoted-fictional/), one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is pushing US negotiators to discuss reworking the border with their Canadian counterparts, The Telegraph can reveal.  
> “Navarro recommended revising the Canada-US border, which is just crazy and dangerous,” a source close to negotiations told The Telegraph.

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