Trump’s war with Canada is coming along nicely.
More than 70,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling for the US ambassador in Ottawa to be expelled for undermining diplomatic relations between the two neighbours.
The online petition accuses Pete Hoekstra of “making repeated interventions in Canadian political discourse” and of having “normalised the Trump administration’s threats to annex Canada as the ’51st state’” of the US.
That will be because he’s a Trump appointee. Anyone else Trump appoints will be just as bad. Trump doesn’t appoint decent people to anything.
A Republican and a Trump ally, Hoekstra has been a fierce defender of US President Donald Trump’s trade policies, saying they are meant to secure the safety and prosperity of Americans.
Yeah no we get that part – Trump’s policies are meant to do things Trump wants to do. We know that. It doesn’t make them reasonable or fair to other parties.
…the ambassador has been criticised for reposting Trump’s comments about Canada becoming the 51st state and telling reporters it would be a “great discussion to be had” by the leaders of the two countries.
Of course it wouldn’t. One of those two leaders is Trump. No great discussion is possible.