EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Why did the U.S. ambassador sit down with Ezra Levant?

In a candid one-hour interview with Ezra Levant, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra responds to tough questions on China, trade, energy and Canada–U.S. tensions.

What did the U.S. ambassador think about Mark Carney telling the Chinese government that he supports a “New World Order”?

What does he think about the wave of anti-Americanism?

Is it possible to get a trade deal that saves the Ontario auto industry?

How about the oilsands? If B.C. continues to block a pipeline, would the U.S. approve a pipeline from Alberta, down into the U.S., and to the Pacific coast, to do an end-run around the environmentalists and intransigent Indian bands?

Who attacked the U.S. consulate in Toronto with gunfire?

These are just a few of the questions Ezra Levant asked Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, in an exclusive, one-hour interview at his home in Ottawa.

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit down for what we hope you’ll agree is an interview with questions that the mainstream media would never ask. (In fact, Ezra asked the ambassador about the mainstream media — and boy did he ever have a lot to say about that!)

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  • Alan Aubut
    commented 2026-03-31 12:42:40 -0400
    That was a great conversation! I don’t like “interviews” as they typically reflect biases of the person doing the “reporting”. What troubles me is not what the ambassador said. It is what I know goes on in Canada in that we pretend we live in a different world. Take for example something I have told others for years. The US has for a long time criticized the way timber rights are allocated and subsidized. An easy fix is to do like is done out west in the oil patch: put parcels up for auction. Don’t give to one selected user and then charge a “stumpage” fee that has no relationship to market forces. And then in turn subsidize road construction using those same fees. Plus demanding that artificial quotas for what type of trees need to be harvested and replanted irrespective of what the market wants. And then take these artificial advantages back by charging taxes that an American business does not have to pay, like Industrial Carbon. Yet, who do we sell the wood to? The Americans. We need to align our rules and regulations with those of our largest trading partner rather than thinking we live in a self determined fishbowl where all we ever do is test the foolish limits of socialism and ignore the potential gains of Capitalism. We keep putting handcuffs on Smiths Invisible Hand to our detriment.
  • Keith Harcus
    followed this page 2026-03-31 11:26:51 -0400
  • Susan Burns
    commented 2026-03-31 06:40:30 -0400
    The U.S. ambassador was right to focus on the positives of the Canada-U.S relationship on the ground. So many Canadians have “Trump derangement syndrome” that politicians (such as Carney) are elected as a knee jerk reaction, without serious thought.
  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2026-03-30 19:44:19 -0400
    What a realistic view of the situation Pete has. Canada can’t survive without America. I also believe that Alberta could work much better with the U.S. than Canada can.
  • Anthony Salotti
    commented 2026-03-30 07:44:53 -0400
    Without the USA Canada is screwed .
  • jerry stone
    commented 2026-03-29 20:39:22 -0400
    can’t watch it sends me to you tube which is a no go zone i demand a refund you are worse than the libs
  • jerry stone
    commented 2026-03-29 20:05:31 -0400
    Canada needs a few years of rule by China it is what the useless idiots want
  • Vance Johnson
    followed this page 2026-03-29 19:04:58 -0400
  • James Brown
    commented 2026-03-29 18:25:16 -0400
    US ambassador is bang on With out the US Canadians could be speaking Russian or Chinese so all the US haters give your head a shake big brother US protects Canada