Howard Lutnick
Secretary of Commerce of the United States
Coercion
Assault on Canada: committed
Dossier
Obligation to respect the political independence of Canada: violatedSecretary of Commerce of the United States · 12 March 2025
Office Secretary of Commerce of the United Statessince 21 February 2025
“No State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure from it advantages of any kind.”
The Secretary of Commerce of the United States named the absorption of Canada as the means to take its economy.
“The best way, the president has said it, the best way to actually merge the economies of Canada and the United States is for Canada to become our 51st state.”