Pete Hoekstra: “This relationship is so critical.”

Compared to a provincial government and Canadian taxpayers running (political) ads in the United States of America? You’re equating those two? C’mon, that’s not even close!

The bridge is obviously going to open," Hoekstra told CBC News and the New York Times at the July 4 party. "We all want it open. There are some things that we're working through and we'll get those resolved I think relatively quickly.

We want oil. We need oil.

Canadians get upset about a number of things.