Canada's next PM Mark Carney vows to win trade war with Trump

Chrétien says Canada is a “very proud country”.

“From one old guy to another old guy: stop this nonsense,” he says, in a remark apparently aimed at Trump, which gets a big cheer. “Canada will never join the United States.”

He says his parents were not millionaires from New York but that his mother taught him good manners. She would have been ashamed if he had treated anyone in the way the US president treated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he says, referring to the two’s meeting last week.

“The reason we don’t want to become American is because our values as Canadians,” he says, saying Trump has united Canadians “as never before”.

“So I want to say thank you to him, and I think I will propose him for the Order of Canada,” he says, to laughs. “I’m just kidding,” he adds.

He ends his speech saying “Vive le Canada” – long live Canada.