Ambassador Hoekstra is back at it. Trying to explain away President Trump’s latest… “we don’t need anything from Canada” line from yesterday.
It is obviously getting more difficult to do, because Hoekstra increasingly has to rely on trying to gaslight us. I especially enjoyed this explanation… “He explained that Trump’s remarks about not needing anything from Canada is really his way of saying America is open for business — an invitation to “make us an offer.”
“You maybe don’t like the way the president says it, but … what he’s saying is, ‘We’re open to offers, make your case,’” Hoekstra said.
‘A strong Canada across the board is good for the United States,’ Pete Hoekstra says
Peter Zimonjic · CBC News · Posted: Jun 11, 2026
A day after U.S. President Donald Trump said his country doesn’t need anything Canada has, his envoy to this country said the United States actually has “tremendous” need for things outside its borders — and if Canada can fulfil them, it will make both countries stronger.
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra also told the Eurasia Group summit in Toronto that the U.S. administration wants Canada to be strong and prosperous, because that is good for America and the world.
“When the president says ‘we don’t need this from Canada’ or ‘there’s nothing we need’ —America has a tremendous amount of things where we have a need,” Hoekstra said on Thursday.
“If Canada puts on their sales hat, they can make a very, very compelling case that if America needs a single car coming into the United States from somewhere else in the world, the best place to get that car from is Canada.”
The two countries have a similar labour force in the auto industry, pay scales and environmental standards, he said, operating in what he described as a “thoroughly integrated ecosystem.”
Read the rest of the article here.
I think we are wise enough to know that Trump and the Administration have started in earnest to try to situate the CUSMA Review to their advantage… (USTR Greer’s recent tariff statements… Geordie Howe Bridge etc.) I don’t think anyone really needs the Ambassador (who I guess is playing good cop here?) to try to put a positive spin on it.
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