Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected President Trump's proposal to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on 2026-08-28, invoking the lake's indigenous historical name. Carney emphasized Canada's sovereignty and the established identity of the Great Lake.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney: Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday rejected President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” explaining the history of the Great Lake’s indigenous name in a post on social media. “The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big,’” Carney wrote...