The Globe and Mail: “The Prime Minister proposed, as part of a preliminary trade agreement, that Canada would be willing to ship three to four million barrels of oil to the United States, additional barrels of oil to the United States,” Mr. Hoekstra said in anon-stage interviewwith former Alberta cabinet minister Gary Mar at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region conference. “Doug Burgum and Secretary Wright had to be restrained by the President because they were so eager for getting more oil and getting it from Canada.”
Mr. Hoekstra said Mr. Trump “had to advise them that crawling across the table and shaking Carney’s hand” was “not necessarily the best negotiating strategy” and to “show a little bit more restraint, that we do have options.”…