Pete Hoekstra: “Competition breeds excellence.”

I think that’s my job.

I’m trying to tell Canadians and give them an insight into exactly what the president of the United States thinks.

We view Alberta, the policies that and the agreements that we have with the government of Alberta, as being very, very constructive and very positive for the United States of America, and we are looking at growing that relationship.

If, somewhere along the line, Canada decided not to fulfil its recent commitments but also the commitments that it made a long time ago that it was going to participate fully in NATO, if they fell back from their commitment to NATO, I…