Canadian Petition To Have Hoekstra Removed As Ambassador

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is the subject of a petition on the House of Commons website. It calls for him to be expelled and has over 100,000 signatures so far.
By Ed Scarce — August 14, 2026

More of a symbolic protest than anything, as the petition couldn't be enforced. But it does send a message that many Canadians are fed up with Trump's representative in Canada and want him gone.

Source: CBC

The woman behind a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country says it's grown beyond her expectations.

The online petition, which is set to be presented in the House of Commons in the fall, says Pete Hoekstra should be declared persona non grata and the Canadian government should request his removal as U.S. ambassador to Canada.

More than 100,000 people had signed the petition as of Thursday afternoon.
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Walker's petition accuses Hoekstra of making statements that undermine the Canada-U.S. diplomatic relationship and of "making repeated interventions in Canadian political discourse inconsistent with diplomatic protocol."

The petition also says Hoekstra has normalized the Trump administration's threats to annex Canada. The ambassador made headlines in June after saying that Canada's annexation by the United States would be a great topic of discussion for Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Walker said comments like that from an ambassador aren't appropriate.

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