So much has already been talked and written about our Bully in Chief’s decision to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, but I thought this article from the CBC was good.
Besides the wonderful quotes from Canadian officials, there’s this graphic:
And this fact on why it is named “Lake Ontario”:
The lake’s name comes from the Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.”
Carney said on social media that the name is more than 400 years old, and predates both Canada and the U.S. as countries.