Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that talk around the U.S. acquiring Canada will not be a topic of discussion when the G7 nations meet later this year in Quebec.

Asked about President Trump's push for Canada to become the 51st state, Rubio brushed off the notion, suggesting that more serious topics such as ending the Russia-Ukraine war would take priority at the meeting of foreign ministers on Thursday.

“That's not what we're going to discuss at the G7 and that's not what we're going to be discussing in our trip here," Rubio told reporters. "They're the host nation. And I mean, we have a lot of other things we work on together."

“We defend North America through NORAD and the airspace of our continent together, so not to mention the issues of Ukraine and other commonalities. So, we're going to be focusing the G7 on all of those things," he continued. "That's what the meeting is about. It is not a meeting about how we're going to take over Canada."

The G7 meeting brings together diplomats from Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Germany,........

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