The name of Lake Ontario appeared long before the U.S. Declaration of Independence: Carney to Trump

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated that Lake Ontario will keep its name, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's desire to change it to "America."

A day earlier, Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America." Ontario is part of the Great Lakes system and is located on the border between the United States and Canada. On its shores are the American state of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. The renaming was preceded by trade disagreements between the United States and the province and Canada as a whole.

"This name is already more than 400 years old. It appeared long before the formation of the Canadian Confederation and the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence," Carney wrote on the social network X.

According to him, Canada realizes that "America is changing."

"Trade ties, foreign policy, national monuments and even hydronyms are changing. Canadians, however, know that calling things by their proper names means calling this lake Ontario. So it was, so it is and so it will always be," the prime minister emphasized.

According to him, the lake's name comes from a word of the Wendat people, which means "beautiful lake, big lake."

Apparently, the American leader does not intend to stop there.

"We already have a gulf and a lake, now we just need an ocean. So maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific Ocean. Maybe it will change a little," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Recall that Trump previously "renamed" the Strait of Hormuz as the "American Strait."