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Hoekstra, on The Hub's Alberta Edge podcast: if Canada says no on security, the US will go in a different direction; without Canada, that would be harder and costlier
US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said that if Canada said no, the US would go in a different direction, and that securing the US without Canada would be harder and costlier, according to The Hub. Published 2025-09-29 on The Hub's Alberta Edge podcast; exact recording date unverified. First public US hint that NORAD terms could change.
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- Statement
- Where
- United States
- Evidence
- Statement: Something was said. Weighted lowest: words cost less than actions. How evidence is weighed
- Who
- Government of Canada (target); Pete Hoekstra (spoke)
When people heard about it
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- Happened
- First reported
- (same day), in The Hub
Articles that cite this record
Sources
- The Hub, “'If Canada says no, we're going in a different direction': U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra and Premier Smith's interview on NORAD, CUSMA, and more” (external site), . paywalled source record
Logged against predictions
- P17: "Shared skies hold" (logged 29 September 2025, logged only)
Corrections to this record
The Hub interview is behind a sign-in wall and no free outlet carries the ambassador's words, so the title and summary no longer quote him; they state in our own words, attributed to The Hub, that he said securing the US without Canada would be harder and costlier.
Earlier wording withheld: it reproduced a source we may not quote.
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