OTTAWA — More Canadians have expressed an interest in joining the military since U.S. President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20 — but the Canadian Armed Forces isn’t attributing that spike to Trump and his talk of annexing Canada.

“In the last month we had about 1,000 more applicants than we did this time last year, but it’s not attributable to any specific incident that we can track so far,” said Cmdr. Pascal Belhumeur, head of the military’s personnel generation group.