A key candidate running to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister is calling for an international summit to hammer out a joint response to US President Donald Trump’s tariff and sovereignty threats.

The Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact, between the United States, Canada and Finland is meant to pool new ship construction.

Canada’s political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the “51st state,” as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched.

President Donald Trump told reporters he thinks the United States will eventually take ownership of Greenland, arguing that the people there "want to be with us." And he again urged Canada to become the 51st state.

In just a week, the president has floated financial reprisals for Mexico, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Colombia. The hostilities could backfire.

The president is increasingly threatening other countries with tariffs for issues that have little to do with trade.

It may be too extreme for Canada or Denmark to view the U.S. as an enemy in the wake of Trump annexation threats, but the line between enmity and amity is currently blurred.

The Danish government is investing in the defence of Greenland. It plans to allocate 15 billion kroner (approximately 2.9 billion CAD), which will be used, among other things, for three Arctic warships and two long-range drones.

New Brunswick RCMP say one person has died after a truck left the roadway and struck a pedestrian on Friday in New Denmark, N.B.

Interest in buying Greenland has "popped up from time to time in American politics," Tom Høyem, Denmark's former minister to Greenland, told ABC News in an interview.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen agreed at a meeting on Tuesday that allies need to focus on strengthening defences in the Arctic, a source familiar with the talks told Reuters.