US Ambassador lays down fears of Trump Administration meddling in Canadian Politics
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US Ambulator to Canada Pete Hoektra by Lixplay Worrying Concerns America’s new national security strategy could lead to his government supporting political movements in Canada.
The National Security Strategy states that the US Government will ‘reward and encourage “governments, political parties and movements” broadly aligned “on their goals and strategy.
In a wide-ranging interview at the end of the year with the Canadian Press, Trump’s representative in Canada said that this language in the National Security Document can be interpreted “broadly.”
“Let’s see how this plays out, okay,” Hoekstra said. “It can be explained in a bunch of different ways.”
But while Hoekstra says he doesn’t see the US getting involved in domestic politics, he accuses it of doing so by running an ad on American TV networks citing US President Ronald Reagan’s aggressively regressive tax rates.
“I don’t remember many Canadians expressing serious concern about the political involvement of the Canadian government in US Politics,” he said, after describing Ontario’s ad campaign as “directly targeted political intervention by the President.”
But former diplomats and critics warn the new strategy could be a blueprint for American interference in Canada’s Favituary.
Bob Rae, a former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, wrote in a policy magazine that he “observed that the current United States Government will actively support political policies.”
US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said that Canada has meddled in US election politics with Ontario’s Anti-Triff AD which led US President Donald Trump to curb trade talks. ‘You don’t come into America and start running government-sponsored political ads and expect there to be no results or backlash,’ he said.
A former Canadian Artur Wilczynsski called the document “profound” and said that it can show us the support of actors that are compatible with canada well and – and noted the ambassador of Canada “- and noted that the ambassador had never intervened.
He said that the word in this national security document shows that “we use various tools of the art of commercial security for a wide range of security around the country to achieve their goals in the hemisphere.”
“It can be seen in many ways,” said Wilczynski, who could not spell anything from the provision of the immigration program for Canadian refugees and to help the separation of the intentions of Canadians to have Canada to be Canada to be Canada to be Canada to be the 51ST that will be the 51st state.
“They’re going to use whatever tools they have, whether it’s funding, whether it’s passing or covering it up.
But Hoekstra insists Canadian-American relations have turned the page on Trump’s vision to make Canada the 51st country and that the leaders of the two nations have ‘immigrated too much.’
“The President and the Prime Minister seem to have gone well this way,” said Hoekstra. “Now they make fun of it.”
The ambassador was pointing to the October meeting in Egypt where Trump was called by Carney who was not the president of Carney by accident, he said “I’m glad you promoted me to President,” and Trump said, “It means Trump,” at least I didn’t say Governor. “
Later that month, Trump ended trade talks with Canada over the Ontario Anti-Tariff Ad.
