U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra appears for an interview on CBC News to share perspectives on U.S-Canada relations. However, what happens within the interview is a case study on how Canadian media represent an extension of the Canadian government.
This example is exactly why the Canadian people have no reference point for information counter to the official propaganda policy from their government offices. Rebecca Zandbergen, host of CBC’s Ottawa Morning represents the voice of government in combative tone, condescending attitude and refusal to accept counter arguments.
The level of passive-aggressive condescension highlights why Canada has continued to lose position in a world where pretending has become devalued. However, it’s clear why the Canadian people will be stunned when it all collapses around them. They have no reference points. Ambassador Hoekstra should get hazard pay. WATCH (prompted):
I like how Hoekstra reminds Rebecca Zandbergen that the 51st state issue surfaced as an outcome of a discussion between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Trump in Mar-a-Lago that centered around NATO spending and reciprocity in trade via non-tariff barriers. The points Ambassador Hoekstra makes at the end of this interview are exactly on point, and yet Zandbergen pretends not to understand them.
The American govt is not running anti-Carney advertising in Canada. Americans are not banning Canadian products. The American Government is not telling Americans not to travel to Canada. The American govt has not banned Canadian companies from bidding on contracts. These are all actions taken by the Canadian government.
This woman brought no facts to the interview. When told that the US tariffs were legal and justified under USMCA, she had nothing to come back to the Ambassador with. Nothing to come back to him regarding Canada taking US products off the shelves. Or the government telling people not to visit. And she was genuinely shocked when she was told that yes, the US could find the oil it needed somewhere else in the world. She was all about Orange Man Bad, and sob, sob, you hurt our feelings!!! If the interview is about a trade deal, bring your facts to the party, not your feelings.
Feelings are all they have. No facts, no reason, no logic, no game plan, nothing to lose!
Feelings and emotions block our critical thinking skills. People whipped into a frenzy by the ENEmedia against orange man bad have no logical reference points to back up their strong sentiments.
And that is exactly how the propaganda machine works: by weaponizing our emotions to bypass all logic and reason.
Spot on!
The ancient Greeks knew that passion ruled reason millennia ago.
Demagogues have exploited the same since time immemorial to the detriment of many peoples.
“Feelings and emotions block our critical thinking skills. People whipped into a frenzy by the ENEmedia against orange man bad have no logical reference points to back up their strong sentiments.”
And –
remember to exercise our analytical thinking skills.
Adjacent to critical thinking. Maybe a prior step in thought processes, to break down a mass of data into processable bite-sized pieces.
sounds like a dumocrat
Amb. Hoekstra had the patience of Job!
I have no need to watch this.
We get exactly the same ani American /anti President Trump bile over here in Eurostan every day.
Just swop cbc for, bbc, rte (ireland), french/german (add name), government censored broadcasters and away you go.
You need to watch for Hoekstra’s responses. They are brilliant……..
He is a gem!
I am just wondering if these dumba$$e$ are just starting to get what is about to happen to them? Either they are complicit in the cover-up or lack of information or they are just stupid.
Which is which?
The media….is complicit….just like here!
Leftist media, leftist government, doom loop
The press , or whatever they are called, cannot let the cat out of the bag for the Canadian citizens. This is why Canadians are mad at the US. They do not know the facts.
Absolutely agree. They always want to create controversy WHERE THERE IS NONE.
Who needs that new bridge in Detroit. Canada will no longer be able to off-load Chinese s—t that they buy and re-sell to US consumers to make money to pay for their socialist /communist programmes. Erect a fence at the center and build condos with views on either side.
We used to dine at 99 Pillette Avenue in Windsor until they enacted at 25% VAT tax in the 1980s. Everyone stopped dining out and the restaurant sector collapsed. All that is left is crappy Indian restaurants serving what no Western person wants.
Aren’t they still bringing their trash into Michigan?
That new bridge was pretty shocking in the last interview the Ambassador was involved. Hugely expensive late delivery bridge that produces no new trade volume and takes money from the existing US bridges. The old pie is only so big and they need another slice ….Canada?
The only advantage I see for the Gordie Howe bridge is allegedly improved access from I-75 and the Canadian freeway, and improved Customs & Border facilities.
I expect rebecca has a collection of the infamous justin and mark “Im Potent” t-shirts.
“These are all actions taken by the Canadian government.”
Living in WNY and listening a lot to a Toronto radio station, I hear this daily.
https://jazz.fm/
The Ontario guvment runs an ad puffing itself up about how much they are doing to support and protect the province, including “cutting regulations” and fast tracking new nuclear power plants.
I live in British Columbia and see those ridiculous Protect Ontario ads on sports broadcasts. Not one of the touted projects has actually begun yet — not the nukes, not the home building, not the Ring of Fire mining. The federal government ads show infrastructure that was built literally 60 to 80 years ago. Beam me up.
Thanks for the update Carney talks about the nukes, home building, new projects……So it is still all talk and nothing else? Incredible, but the guy is a DEI expert not a doer.
Have you heard/seen the ridiculous ads by Hochul about Trump putting money in his donors buddy’s private schools, we need to keep it in the public schools, as if. Just say no. No to what? The ads so dumb, as if it’s a referendum and she doesn’t line her own donors pockets. lol
“Have you heard/seen the ridiculous ads by Hochul about Trump”
No, I have not. However, I am insulated from much of that because I had the cable TV disconnected last Sept. after my mother received her promotion to glory and did not hook up an over the air antenna. When I am at a TV news website, it primarily has been for the meteorologist’s forecast.
Of course we have phones that will give us weather, So there ya go
Not everyone wants to use their phone for everything.
They’re just waiting till trump is neutralized or gone
WHEN the organization ” LIVES ” on the government dime, ( btw i LOVE the Bluenose Schooner ), YOU SPEAK FOR The Government.
REBEL NEWS IS my GO TO in Canada and Davos
Tomorrow, Monday, Carney will be stopping off in the Maritime area while on his way to NATO Turkey. He’ll be announcing the acquisition of submarines through a Call for Tender (more a Request for Proposals). The two winners are Germany and South Korea.
I would add that the timing of this announcement is quite convenient.
American built submarines not good enough for Canada? Their loss.
The question now is will there be Chinese parts, regardless of their functionality in those submarines?
I dunno. The screen doors on those subs oughta hold up OK even if they are made in China.
That is so heartbreaking for the US. I’m sure our already grossly insufficient shipbuilding capacity will mourn the loss of this giant contract.
Carney is an interesting character. There is a Wall Street Journal article about countries in the EU feeling like they need to prepare to cut many ties with the US, from NATO to technology and so on. Carney is portrayed in that article as a someone with the foresight to have anticipated the US changing it’s direction (from being willing to fund Canada and the EU’s welfare state, although the article doesn’t put it that way). He’s kind of positioned as the natural leader of the cut ties with the US group of nations.
Why would Carney want that, especially at such a delicate time for Canada visa vi trade relations with the US ? The main thing Canada has is that it’s located to our north and has been a reliable (if somewhat parasitic, like most of the EU nations) ally. Carney trying to puff himself up (or allowing others to do so) isn’t really in his best interest, especially given who he’s negotiating with/against.
I need a Sundance-level brain to try and understand this, and unfortunately mine is not up to the task, but somethings going on that isn’t obvious but is important.
The only answer is that Carney is getting his ‘benefit’ from some entity other than the Canadian people.
It’s the same question down here….why would the Biden administration open the borders to the worst the world has to offer? It sure wasn’t a benefit to the American people.
I know it may appear obsequious. 😘
Maybe you are sick of hearing it. 🙉
However– one more time– ☝️
Thank God for you, Sundance! 🙏💕
She’s a Canadian employed by the Canadian government. She’s defending her country. I don’t fault her for that. I thought Hoekstra did a terrific job giving her facts of why the relationship is on the rocks. Clearly, she was unaware of most of what Hoekstra explained. I didn’t expect her to say, “Wow, I see how my country is really f’ing this up!” Canada is still in the FA stage, soon to be in the FO stage.
Alan,
This woman seemed to be rather surprised at the thought that the US could source oil elsewhere. How odd!
She hasn’t heard of Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, the Gulf of America?
She needs to study up before she opens her mouth.
Also Alaska.
How about tripling VZ oil production capacity. Make the Western Hemisphere great again. Getting Venezuela and Argentina rolling again will help everyone in the West.
You are right on target. Venezuela heavy crude is a closer match to what we get from Alberta than the light, sweet crude we pull out of TX. Our refineries are designed to process the heavy stuff. The faster we get Venezuela ramped up the less need we have for Alberta.
She had a hard time accepting that the U.S. doesn’t care if Canada is mad at us or hates us.
They must be slow learners.
We don’t dislike Canadians. Maybe if they started a war or detained Americans at the border.
Nah, that wouldn’t work either.
What is the difference between the CBC and the Soviet Pravda?
Eh.
Apparently intelligence of their audiences. USSRists knew Pravda was BS.
What is the difference among CBC, Pravda, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN…… nothing…. They are all propaganda and all antiUSA.
And the worst of the worst……….. MSNBC. They are so bad they had to change their name to MSNOW! Wow!!!
Three cheers for Ambassador Hoekstra!
Hmmm, that sounds eerily similar to some of the same $h!t that our government is guilty of during the Obiden administration!
Obonzo and Princess Justin are pretty much cut from the same cloth.
I’m still wondering where the money I sent to the truckers is now??
They never got it and I never got it back.
Probably vanished into the pockets of Liberal Party cabinet members and their hangers-on, just like much of our tax-dollars.
Well, that interview made me dislike Canada and Canadians, if they can’t see through this obvious manipulation and the absurd, destructive agenda behind it. Weird how USSR citizens figured out that actual Pravda was what Pravda didn’t print. I hope Canuks figger it oot!
That’s kind of like disliking all Americans based on Dana Bash’s interview skills and IQ. 🤣
The same applies to the lazy, apathetic, low-information voters in the U.S. If only they would take the time to actually research the history of our nation, learn a thing or two about economics, study the candidates running for office and what they actually bring to the table, instead of blindly following and worshipping these corrupt, deceiving fools that only offer destruction and misery, disguised as prosperity and utopia.
For Canada trade with the US is 85% of Canada trade. We are the customer. They are stupid.
Keep brow beating us during negotiations does not sound like a winning method with 85% of your trade in the balance?
Not making the oil deal and mineral deal right away is not very smart for Canada. We cannot fix stupid, only the Canadian people can do that.
Like trying to interview an inmate in an insane asylum.
My mother’s family came from Ireland to Canada in the mid 1800’s. I have the naturalization paper that proves my grandfather became a US citizen. I used to want to visit the town they originally settled in up there. I have absolutely no desire to do that anymore. It’s bad enough Im stuck in the blue NE US, why double down on misery?
Trump: You have been ripping off the United States for decades.
China: lol yup
Canada: *incoherent shrieking*
No sympathy whatsoever for the Canadien people. None. Let them be stunned.
>>>>> …… These are all actions taken by the Canadian government.
And yet, Rebecca Zandbergen is firmly on the side of Canadians who are upset at America (which is nothing new).
They’ve been acting like they were the aggrieved party, simply because of Trump-hate and what Trump said (i.e., 51st state). But American actions did not back that up.
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is exactly right, we can NOT stop Canadians acting this way. But. If Canada is not a willing partner, US of course is looking elsewhere to fill the needs of America.
Wow! Fully narcissistic personality on the interviewer. Thought it was interesting she never says President Trump–only Donald Trump. So arrogant.
I just saw “Young Washington” last night, and was reminded that the French (and the French Canadians) have always been arrogant.
Canada…..has become a joke and their Prime minister……Carney is a clown pretending to be a leader,
We have seen this exact same movie right here in the US…….but we shut the clown show down! Biden is gone!
They haven’t shut their show down….in fact……they have what we would have had……..no clue because the government and the corrupt media are in IT together and keeping the TRUTH from the people……..
Not all Canadians are ignorant. Not all Canadians rely on government subsidized media to get the news. Yes it can take a few keystrokes to find trustworthy reporting but failing to do so is not ignorance, it’s laziness or willful indifference.
And I thought our “media” was annoying!
He makes a great Ambassador. Good choice.
Embarrassed for Rebecca!
Wow!
Very interesting, but the MOST interesting take away for me was the that Hoekstra let the quiet cat slip out of the bag regarding the 51st State.
Just wow.
That Alaska will be CONUS seems to be a real possibility.
Now that is some funny stuff right there Maynard. “The first time that any other country has tried to inveigle itself into USA politics”?
Gimme a break there, homey. Let’s go back to 1948 or so and Balfour.
OK?
She actually asked, if he thought we could fill the oil orders that don’t come from Alberta, somewhere else. Well let’s see, we just took over Venezuela which has the world’s largest oil reserves. Yeah, I think we can fill those orders without Alberta.
The pigeons wandering around on the rooftop outside the window are smarter than that CBC interviewer.
Trudeau bought the CBC and most of the Canadian media, so their ranks are stacked with leftist hacks who run with the agenda.
While I agree CN media is gov’t propaganda, so is USA major media.
Pete handles himself very well here.
Only senior citizens get their news from the CBC. The rest of us know it’s govt propaganda.