Amidst Pete Hoekstra’s term as the U.S. ambassador to Canada, he criticized Canada’s federal election campaign as “un-American,” shared a controversial post from Donald Trump labeling Canada as the “51st state,” and reportedly engaged in a profanity-laced outburst directed at an Ontario trade official. A petition demanding his expulsion from the country has garnered close to 200,000 signatures.
Today, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Canada bureau chief for the New York Times, sheds light on Pete Hoekstra’s background, the reasons behind Canadian discontentment towards him, and the implications of the movement to remove him on the Canada-U.S. relationship.
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