Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rejected Donald Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” pointing to the lake’s Indigenous name and centuries of history.
“The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big,” Carney wrote in a Thursday post on X.
Carney said the name is more than 400 years old, predating both Canadian Confederation and the US Declaration of Independence.
Carney’s comments came as Trump signed an executive order Thursday signed an executive order that he said would “immediately” rename the body of water to “Lake America.”
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