Pete Hoekstra: “It is kind of like Charlie Brown. How many times are you going to pull the football away?”

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!

If (the referendum) is going to be influenced by governments, it’s going to be influenced by the government of Alberta and by the federal government, and maybe the other provinces, but not by the United States government.

Probably the region that can make the most compelling case for supplying more oil to the United States would be Saskatchewan and Alberta.

As long as the president of the United States think I’m doing a good job, I’ll be here.