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The Ambassador From MAGA
Trump loyalist Pete Hoekstra is the U.S. ambassador to Canada. He is as deeply unpopular as his boss
Pete Hoekstra has been called “the most contentious ambassador the U.S. has ever dispatched [to Canada].”
Several hundred thousand Canadians have signed a petition calling for him to be kicked out of the country.
Ambassador Hoekstra
Polls say that only 14 percent of Canadians view U.S. President Donald Trump favourably, and Pete Hoekstra is the man whose job it is to sell a positive image of his leader.
However, he seems to go out of his way to amplify the negative feelings towards Trump. Mildly right-of-centre Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail opined in May 2026 that Hoekstra is “keen to channel his boss’s aggressive boorishness.”
He has supported Trump’s calls to make Canada the 51st state while slapping hefty tariffs on Canadian goods entering the U.S.
A blogger in Victoria, British Columbia summed up the feelings of the vast majority of Canadians:
“Let’s be clear about something. Canada and the US aren’t striking a trade deal, they’re negotiating a peace agreement to a trade war Canada never asked for. Like Hormuz, the US sees any mutually…
