01/14/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"Therefore, how can you use a Section 232 sanction against Canada, which is based on national security, in fact, something adverse for our national security? It makes no sense."
"I do not think you have the legal standing to invoke a national security tariff on Canada."
"When I go to Afghanistan, I have been there about 16 times, should I go up to one of those Canadian soldiers and say, 'Why are you not helping us because you are really impairing our national security..."
"Everything you have said today indicates that you feel that Canada is not a threat to the national security of the United States."