U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra had a simple response when asked how he sees the Canada-U.S. relationship 10 years from now.
“I’m just hoping that you guys like us more than China,” he said while attending the National Manufacturing Conference in Ottawa on Nov. 19.
The response came after Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters president and CEO Dennis Darby asked Hoekstra during a fireside chat about his perspective on how the Canada-U.S. relationship may evolve in the future.
Darby reacted to Hoekstra’s comment saying that Canada liking the United States more than China would be a “pretty low bar.”…