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HIGH 28 — LOW 9 TOP NEWS CARNEY PREPARES FOR TALKS WITH TRUMP / A3 President says he will continue efforts to make Canada the 51st state U.S. invasion ‘highly unlikely’: Trump O TTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump says it is “highly unlike- ly” the United States would ever use military force to annex Canada, though he maintains he will continue to push to make Canada the 51st state. In a wide-ranging interview on NBC’s Meet the Press that aired Sun- day, Trump said he wouldn’t rule out military force against Greenland, but he didn’t see it happening with Canada. “I think we’re not going to ever get to that point,” Trump said. “Something could happen with Greenland. I’ll be honest, we need that for national and international securi- ty.” “But I think it’s highly unlikely ... I don’t see it with Canada. I just don’t see it, I have to be honest with you.” Trump’s remarks come as Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to have his first face-to-face meeting with the president this week in Washington, in which the countries’ trade war will be the top topic of conversation. On Sunday, Trump called Carney “a very nice man” and that he congratu- lated the prime minister on his election victory during their call last week. “There’s no majority or anything, so that’s going to make things a little bit difficult, I think, for him to run,” Trump. NICK MURRAY Canadian students in Netherlands for liberation celebrations KEITH DOUCETTE HALIFAX — As the Netherlands marks the 80th anniversary of the country’s liberation by the Canadian Army, more than 1,000 Canadian students will take part in events where they are expected to sense both the horror of war and the reverence of the Dutch for their liberators. Upwards of 175,000 Canadians fought as part of First Canadian Army in the Netherlands between September 1944 and early May 1945, with 7,600 killed during the campaign to liberate the country from its five-year German occupation. The fighting came to an end on May 5, 1945, when Canadian Lt.-Gen. Charles Foulkes accepted the surren- der of German troops in the village of Wageningen. David Chisholm, vice-principal of Three Oaks Senior High School in Summerside, P.E.I., is a former history teacher who has long had a passion for keeping the stories of Canadian veterans alive. His school is one of five from the province taking part in the trip, which he hopes will instil the same passion in his students. “We get the kids connected to their own families and their own commu- nity,” he said. “They do projects, they do research and they connect to local veterans.” Chisholm said he was in the Neth- erlands for the 65th and 70th anniver- sary liberation celebrations, adding his students are about to experience something special. “I got to experience what it’s like to be a Canadian during the liberation time and the celebration … they are really going to see what it’s like to be a Canadian and to be revered.” City downplays impact of sewage spills in lawsuit defence THE city says sewage spills have little effect on pollution in Lake Winnipeg and the blame for any water-quality is- sues falls on the provincial and federal governments, which have not provided the necessary funds to upgrade the sewer system. That’s the argument the City of Win- nipeg advanced in a statement of de- fence filed in Manitoba Court of King’s Bench last week against a $4.8-billion lawsuit filed last year by eight Man- itoba First Nations. Three additional First Nations have since become joined the legal action that also names the provincial and federal governments as defendants. The First Nations — Black River, Berens River, Brokenhead Ojibway, Hollow Water, Kinonjeoshtegon, Mis- ipawistik Cree, Sagkeeng Anicinabe and Poplar River — launched the suit a year ago. Bloodvein, Dauphin River and Fisher River Cree First Nations have since been added. They claim decades of pollution have caused physical, psychological, social and cultural harms to their commu- nities, all located downstream from Winnipeg. “The impugned discharges are a de minimis (too small to be of signifi- cance) contribution to the cumulative nutrient loading in Lake Winnipeg each year, and the city’s impact on same is declining as it continues (to) make significant capital investments to reduce and mitigate the amount of nutrients released by the city’s wastewater system,” the city’s court document says. The city says Lake Winnipeg’s watershed, with drainage from as far away as Alberta, Montana, South Da- kota and Minnesota, includes nutrients and pollutants from wastewater and surface runoff areas with intensive agriculture. KEVIN ROLLASON ● TRUMP, CONTINUED ON A2 ● STUDENTS, CONTINUED ON A2 ● SEWAGE, CONTINUED ON A2 FRED GREENSLADE / THE CANADIAN PRESS JETS ELIMINATE BLUES IN GAME 7 Winnipeg Jets captain Adam Lowry (left) celebrates his game-winning goal against the St. Louis Blues in the second overtime period of Sunday’s Game 7 at Canada Life Centre. The Jets now move on to the second round against the Dallas Stars. Game 1 is Wednesday in Winnipeg / C1, 3 ;