JD Vance
Vice President of the United States
25 March 2026
The White House, Washington
Hostile interference
Assault on Canada: committed
Dossier
Obligation to respect the political independence of Canada: violatedVice President of the United States · 25 August 2026
Office Vice President of the United Statessince 20 January 2025
Law
“No State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure from it advantages of any kind.”
Record
The Vice President of the United States named Canada a state of the Union in a public address, and named it again as a slip.
“We have to remember, Canada is a state, sorry, Freudian slip.”