Guest Post by Sarah Bowman
Things have come to a head with the so-called Ambassador Donald Trump sent to Canada. On October 27 2025, at the Canadian American Business Council’s state of the relationship event at the elegant National Gallery of Canada, Pete Hoekstra addressed a Canadian dignitary with profane language.
According to multiple reports, Ambassador Hoekstra berated [Ontario’s representative in Washington, David] Paterson during — ironically enough, the Canadian American Business Council’s state of the relationship event at the elegant National Gallery of Canada — using profane language, including the F-word, to express his (and his boss’s) displeasure over the province’s televised advertising campaign, which used snippets of a speech by President Ronald Reagan to promote the virtues of free trade. (Our Hoekstra Response Should be a Lesson in Diplomacy - Policy Magazine)
I posted the following on Substack just now and will also post it here for any Canadians who are interested.
Dear fellow Canadians,
A conversation started on Substack yesterday when I replied to Anne Ward’s note about Pete Hoekstra addressing Canadian dignitaries with profane language on October 27 2025 at the Canadian American Business Council’s state of the relationship event at the elegant National Gallery of Canada. Here’s what I said, quoting one line of her note:
Whose job is it to tell this guy to go?
>Cursing at a Canadian official, on Canadian soil<
He crossed a line. But all anyone is doing is talking about it. On Power & Politics, two old men whom David Cochrane interviewed concluded that Doug Ford was at fault for airing that stupid ad. I could tell that David was uneasy with their judgment. The Rational National argues that Ford is corrupt on many levels, including wasting so much money on this ad, money that should have been used for things like Ontarians’ healthcare, especially since he didn’t change any American’s mind.
All these arguments for or against the ad because of Hoekstra’s blowup, but no one is taking action. This is just like the Democratic Party in the US. Should we citizens be writing to our MPs or should we write directly to Mark Carney? We need to defend our boundaries. This tyrant has to GO!
No one knew for sure who to write to until someone found Charlie Angus’s post Pete Hoekstra Needs to Go. Charlie Angus writes:
Fellow resisters, I encourage you to write to Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand (anita.anand@international.gc.ca) and call for his immediate expulsion from Canada.
I did that just now and sent it. I added my city and province to give it credibility, so she knows I’m a real person living in a real place in Canada.
If you feel my letter says what you want to say, feel free to copy it or change it up. Expel the man immediately! That’s the message we want our government to get.
MY LETTER TO ANITA ANAND
Hello Anita Anand,
Some of us conclude that you are the person best positioned to expel Pete Hoekstra from Canada. Addressing Canadian dignitaries on Canadian soil at a formal Canada-US Relationship event with profane language calls for his immediate expulsion. This was not the first time the man directed offensive speech at Canadians on Canadian soil. Doug Ford called for his apology. Hoekstra has not apologized. Expel him already!
Sarah Bowman, [city], [province]
UPDATE: 2 weeks later, Nov. 9 2025
Good point from the comments:
Francois Boisvert · Nov. 9 2025
It would wise to do it after Trump’s tariffs are overturned by the Supreme Court. If not Trump would go mental and slap a shitload of new tariffs just because he is pissed off !!!
Waiting, waiting, waiting on Trump to do this or that. Not wise. We all know he has no respect for the courts or the law. But you do have a point. Elsewhere on the internet I read/heard that it’s not time to kick the guy out but to tell him to rein it in. Maybe that’s what has been done. At least ten thousand signatures were collected in one petition that I know of. Lots of letters were written. Our government had to notice. So far, I haven’t seen any reports of new offenses since that egregious one on October 27.
I will now turn off comments because I can’t monitor them anymore and pretty much everything has been said that can be said. If there is news on the matter, maybe you can let me know some other way.
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