Canada Objects To U.S. Plans To Deploy Troops Along The U.S.-Canada Border

Reuters: Canada calls Trump plan to deploy troops at border unnecessary and damaging

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canada’s government on Thursday said U.S. President Donald Trump should not deploy troops along the U.S.-Canada border, calling it unnecessary because of the coronavirus outbreak and warning it would damage relations between the two countries.

Trump is expected to send fewer than 1,000 troops to the Canadian border, two U.S. government officials told Reuters. They would help enforce the ban on non-essential crossings due to the coronavirus pandemic, one of the officials said.

It would be “an entirely unnecessary step that we would view as damaging to our relationship,” Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters at a news conference.

She said she had first heard about plans to deploy troops “a couple of days ago”, and said Canada had made its position clear to various members of the U.S. administration.

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WNU Editor: We are talking about 1,000 U.S. soldiers, 30 kilometers from the border, dispersed along a border that spans thousands of kilometres.

More News On Canada Objecting To U.S. Plans To Deploy Troops Along The U.S.-Canada Border

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Trudeau: Canada-U.S. border should stay free of troops -- Politico
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