US President Donald Trump and Canadian PM Mark Carney.
\n\nUS President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America", declaring the change official and effective immediately — the sharpest symbolic escalation yet in a trade war that has severed talks between Washington and Ottawa and left 50 per cent tariffs in force on both sides of the world's longest undefended border.
\n\nThe order followed a week of attacks on Trump by Ontario Premier Doug Ford. On Thursday morning the President posted that the United States was considering the renaming because it did not expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. By afternoon he had signed, seated beside an Oval Office map with "Lake America" printed across the water.
\n\nOttawa refused the name. Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadians would go on calling it Lake Ontario, "then, now and always". The order in fact directs only the US Interior Department to update its own Geographic Names Information System; no international body governs the naming of shared waters.
\n\nThe lake is the most recent of five fault lines. Here is how the rest opened.
\n\nEvery dispute on this list sits inside a frame…
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