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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PETER HOEKSTRA, US AMBASSADOR TO CANADA ... The Revealed States Trump’s Ambassador KICKED OUT of Canada — Diplomatic Crisis Explodes PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTTh0D343w
Trump’s Ambassador KICKED OUT of Canada — Diplomatic Crisis Explodes The Revealed States 12K subscribers Jan 1, 2026 UNITED STATES Tensions surged after Trump’s ambassador was expelled from Canada, triggering a sharp diplomatic fallout. Officials on both sides are trading accusations, raising concerns about worsening U.S.–Canada relations, stalled cooperation, and broader geopolitical consequences. ⚠️Disclaimer: This video is independent political commentary and analysis. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by George Conway. Views expressed are our own and based on publicly available information. 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In October 2025, during a gathering of the Canadian American Business Council in Ottawa, Hoekstra used expletives including 'fuck' in a rant directed at Ontario's trade representative that also mentioned Ontario Premier Doug Ford, reportedly over an anti-tariff ad that Ford's government had run in American television markets. Trump, citing the ads, halted ongoing trade negotiations and threatened to impose an additional 10% tariff on Canadian goods.[104][105] Ford called on Hoekstra to apologize the following day. American magazine Time ran a quote from Canadian satire website The Beaverton[106] of Hoekstra threatening to drop a patriot missile on Parliament Hill. [107][108][109] 'Pete Hoekstra confirmed as US ambassador to Canada'. www.bbc.com. April 10, 2025. Retrieved April 11, 2025. Boynton, Sean (September 18, 2025). 'Canada not 'constructive' in efforts to secure U.S. trade deal, envoy says'. Global News. Retrieved September 26, 2025. Steven, Benjamin Lopez (September 20, 2025). 'Canadian politicians, experts push back against U.S. ambassador's anti-Americanism concerns'. CBC News. Retrieved September 26, 2025. Phillips, Andrew (September 26, 2025). 'Andrew Phillips: We have one good reason to thank the infuriating, undiplomatic U.S. ambassador to Canada'. Toronto Star. Retrieved September 26, 2025. Mason, Gary (September 23, 2025). 'The comments of the U.S. Ambassador to Canada reveal a shocking ignorance and disdain'. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 30, 2025. Simpson, Katie (October 28, 2025). 'U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative, witnesses say'. CBC News. Retrieved October 28, 2025. Fife, Robert (October 28, 2025). 'U.S. ambassador profanely scolds Ontario representative over anti-tariff ad, sources say'. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 28, 2025. 'US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve'. The Beaverton. September 19, 2025. Retrieved December 1, 2025. Previl, Sean (October 29, 2025). 'Ford wants U.S. envoy to apologize for 'unacceptable' comments to Ontario trade rep'. Global News. Retrieved October 29, 2025. Gillies, Rob (October 29, 2025). 'Ontario's premier says US ambassador should apologize for tirade against his diplomat'. AP News. Stevis-Gridneff, Matina (November 20, 2025). 'U.S. Ambassador to Canada Channels Harsh Trump Tone'. The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 21, 2025. Retrieved December 1, 2025. Peter Burgess Transcript 0:00 Breaking news from Ottawa and what we're witnessing is nothing short of a full-blown diplomatic meltdown between the United States and Canada. In the next 20 minutes, I'm going to walk you through exactly how Trump's handpicked ambassador to Canada has systematically destroyed one of America's most critical relationships, who's paying the price, and why experts are warning this could trigger economic devastation on both sides of the border. We're talking about an American diplomat launching exploitive laden tyrades at Canadian officials. We're talking about tariffs that have already cost the average American household $1,200. We're talking about a trade war that's pushing Canada's economy toward recession while decimating American jobs in states that voted for Trump. The question everyone's asking, how did a relationship that stood strong for over a century collapse in less than 12 months? Let's break it down. Here's what just happened, and I 1:01 need you to understand the sheer magnitude of this diplomatic disaster. United States ambassador to Canada. Pete Hawkra, a former Michigan Congressman handpicked by Donald Trump, launched into what witnesses describe as an exploitativeladen tirade at Ontario's trade representative David Patterson during a formal diplomatic event at the National Gallery in Ottawa. Let that sink in. The top American diplomat in Canada representing our country at an official function, cornered a Canadian official, and according to multiple witnesses who spoke to CBC and CTV News, began swearing at him, hurling insults, and berating him in front of dozens of guests at this Canadian-American Business Council event. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a conservative politician who's been generally friendly to American interests, was so appalled that he publicly demanded Hustra apologize. 2:01 'Pete, you've got to call Dave up and apologize. It's simple,' Ford said at a press conference. 'This is absolutely unacceptable and unbecoming of an ambassador.' And it gets worse. Hookstra never apologized. Instead, he doubled down. Two days later, on November 20th, at another public event in Ottawa, Hustra defended his outburst and made it clear, 'This is the Trump administration's approach to Canada.' 'You do not come into America and start running political ads, government-funded political ads, and expect that there will be no consequences,' Hawkstra told the audience. What was he talking about? Ontario had commissioned an advertisement that aired during the World Series featuring former President Ronald Reagan's own words from 1987 championing free trade and warning that tariffs hurt every American worker and consumer. The ad used Reagan's actual speech, nothing fake, nothing altered, 3:01 simply reminding Americans that even conservative icon Ronald Reagan understood basic economics. Trump's response, he called the ad fake on Truth Social and threatened to raise Canada's tariff rate from 35% to 45%. Think about that. A sitting president threatening a 10-point tariff hike because a Canadian province quoted Ronald Reagan accurately. But this isn't just about one ambassador's temper tantrum or one ad campaign. This is about a systematic breakdown of a relationship that generates 800 billion dollars in annual trade. Trump invoked emergency powers to impose 25% tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods, citing fentanyl trafficking as a national emergency despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of fentanyl enters through the southern border with Mexico, not Canada. Those tariffs had escalated to 35%. Trade talks have been completely stalled 4:01 since October. Canada's economy shrank by $1.6% in the second quarter alone. According to Statistics Canada, the US tourism industry is projected to lose up to $29 billion this year with Canadian travel to the United States down for 10 consecutive months. And here's the human cost. Howard Miller, a 99-year-old furniture and clockmaking company based in Hawkstra's former congressional district in Michigan, announced in July it was closing permanently. 195 jobs gone. The company directly cited Trump's tariffs as a main culprit for rising costs on essential components that were unavailable domestically. This is the reality of what's happening right now. our closest ally, our largest trading partner, and a democratic nation that stood with us through every major conflict for a century. And we've sent them an ambassador who's burning bridges 5:02 faster than diplomats can build them. Now, let's talk about how we got here, because this didn't happen overnight. Pete Huxra is not your typical career diplomat. He's a former ninetterm Republican congressman from Michigan who co-founded the Tea Party Caucus. He served as ambassador to the Netherlands during Trump's first term where he made headlines for falsely claiming the Netherlands had Muslim controlled nogo zones, a statement he later had to retract and apologize for. But here's where it gets interesting. Back in 2003, when Congressman Hogstra testified before the House Ways and Means Committee about President George W. Bush's steel tariffs. He said something remarkable. The market should dictate the price of steel, not the government. He warned that tariffs drive up costs for furniture makers and manufacturers in his district, leading to dramatically higher prices, longer lead times for production, and lost jobs. Once lost, 6:02 the jobs will not come back. Fast forward to 2025. Hogstra is now one of Trump's most aggressive defenders of the very tariffs he once warned would destroy American jobs. What changed? Politics, pure and simple. Let me explain how these tariffs actually work. Because this is crucial. When Trump imposes a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, that's not a tax on Canada. Despite what the president claims, foreign countries don't write checks to the US Treasury. American importers pay the tariff when goods cross the border and they pass those costs directly to consumers. According to the Tax Foundation, Trump's tariffs amount to an average tax increase of $1,200 per US household in 2025, the largest tax hike since 1993. For Canada, the math is even more devastating. Canadian exports to the United States represent roughly 20% of 7:01 Canada's entire GDP. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce projects that a sustained 25% tariff could shrink Canada's GDP by 2.6% costing Canadian households an average of $1,900 annually. For context, that's like taking nearly $2,000 directly out of every family's bank account. But here's what really concerns analysts, and this is where it gets complicated. The Canada, United States, Mexico agreement, or KUSMA was negotiated during Trump's first term. Trump himself called it the best agreement we've ever made when he celebrated its passage in 2019. The agreement was specifically designed to create tariff-free trade between the three countries for qualifying goods. So, how is Trump imposing these tariffs? He's using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, claiming that fentinel trafficking constitutes a national emergency. Legal 8:02 experts across the political spectrum have pointed out that this is an unprecedented expansion of executive power. The Supreme Court is currently reviewing whether a president can bypass trade agreements by declaring emergencies. Gordon Gifin, who served as US ambassador to Canada under President Clinton, told ProPublica that Trump has fallen in love with tariffs and that if there's already a trade agreement in place, Trump will argue that whatever president put the agreement in place was an idiot. The agreement that's in place is the one he put in place, and somebody needs to remind him of that. Think of it like this. Imagine you signed a contract with your neighbor to share lawn equipment tariff-free to save both families money. Then one day you declare a neighborhood emergency, void the contract, and start charging your neighbor a 35% fee every time they borrow your lawn mower even though you're still using their snowblower. 9:00 That's essentially what's happening here. The economic chain reaction is already playing out. According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 63% of Canadian businesses report higher expenses, 53% report reduced profits, 48% report lower revenue, 42% face supply chain disruptions, and 36% have paused investments. Only 7% report no impact whatsoever. On the American side, Michigan, Hawkstra's home state, is getting hammered. Canada is Michigan's largest international trading partner. The state exports 23.3 billion dollars in goods to Canada annually, including cars, trucks, vehicle parts, furniture, and agricultural goods. That's more than Michigan's next four largest foreign markets combined. The Michigan Retailers Association found that twothirds of retailers surveyed in May had to raise prices because of tariffs. Michigan's 10:00 agriculture department reported in late August that wheat exports fell by 89% compared to last year. Fresh cherries by 62% and fresh apples by 58%. These are farmers in red counties who voted overwhelmingly for Trump, watching their export markets evaporate. And here's the kicker. These tariffs aren't bringing manufacturing back. They're destroying what's left of it. Remember Howard Miller, that 99-year-old furniture company? According to ProPublica's investigation, the company wasn't struggling because of foreign competition. They were a domestic manufacturer that imported certain specialized components unavailable in the United States. The tariffs made those components prohibitively expensive. Nelson Vandermir, a product development engineer who'd been with Howard Miller for over 30 years, told reporters, 'If the federal government had said, 'It's a 10% tariff constant. 11:00 This is what it is,' they might have been able to adjust margins, set pricing, but no, it's just chaos. It's that word chaos perfectly captures what's happening. Companies can't plan. Investors won't commit capital. Supply chains that took decades to build are being ripped apart in months. And the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, one of the busiest land borders in North America, is seeing traffic plummet as the relationship between our countries, enters what former diplomats are calling the worst crisis in modern history. So, who's actually paying the price for this diplomatic and economic catastrophe? Let's break it down by category because the impact is hitting every sector of both economies. American workers and families are getting crushed. That $1,200 average annual cost from tariffs, that's not evenly distributed. According to analysis from the Peterson Institute 12:00 for International Economics, lower income households spend a higher percentage of their income on goods, meaning tariffs function as a regressive tax. A family in Michigan trying to buy furniture, appliances, or a new car is now paying thousands more because of tariff inflated prices. Mortgage rates have stayed elevated partly because tariffs sparked recession fears and pushed the Federal Reserve to keep rates higher for longer. Firsttime home buyers are being priced out of the market. Small businesses are facing an impossible situation. Take the case of a typical small manufacturer in the Midwest. Let's say a company that makes custom machinery parts. They import specialized steel and aluminum components from Canada that aren't produced domestically. Under the 35% tariff, their costs have skyrocketed. They have three options. Absorb the costs and watch profit margins evaporate, raise prices, and lose 13:00 customers to international competitors not subject to the same tariffs or shut down operations. Many are choosing option three. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business surveyed members in August and found businesses are pausing investments at alarming rates. That means no new equipment purchases, no expansions, no new hires. When businesses stop investing, economic growth stops. When economic growth stops, workers lose jobs. It's a vicious cycle that takes years to recover from. Large corporations are making hard choices. Miller Null, the furniture company where Ambassador Hoostra once worked as vice president, reported in its earnings call that first quarter gross margins decreased compared to the prior year, attributed primarily to net tariff related costs. The company issued sir charges and raised prices. That means corporate executives keep their salaries, but consumers pay more for office chairs. Stalantis, the Netherlands-based automaker that owns 14:01 Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep, announced a massive investment in plants in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana. The United Auto Workers credited tariffs for this move. But here's what the UAW didn't mention. Stellantis is shifting production away from Ontario. So, American workers in some states gain jobs while Canadian workers lose them. and the overall North American auto industry becomes less efficient and competitive against European and Asian manufacturers. International partners are watching closely. If the United States can unilaterally void a trade agreement it negotiated just 6 years ago, what's the value of any agreement with America? The European Union, Japan, and other allies are already discussing how to reduce dependence on the US market. Colin Bird, console general of Canada in Detroit, told ProPublica he's hearing from companies on both sides of 15:00 the border in wait and see mode or pulling back on investment. There's a huge reservoir of goodwill for the United States in Canada, Bird said. But it's having a really significant short-term impact. Let me give you some concrete examples of the ripple effects. The US tourism industry, hotels, restaurants, attractions, is projected to lose up to 29 billion dollars in 2025 because Canadians have stopped traveling to the United States. Statistics Canada reports 10 consecutive months of reduced travel. That's hotel workers in Buffalo, Seattle, Detroit, and Minneapolis watching hours get cut or losing jobs entirely. Canadian retaliatory tariffs, which were in place from March through September on many goods and remain on steel, aluminum, and autos, hit American bourbon distillers particularly hard. Data shows bottled bourbon whiskey exports to Canada from January to September, dropped about 60% compared to 16:01 the previous year. Kentucky distilleries are laying off workers. Here's an expert warning that should terrify everyone. Economists at projected that a sustained 25% tariff could pull Canadian growth down by nearly two percentage points. When Canada's economy shrinks, they buy fewer American goods. We're not insulated from their recession. We create it and then we suffer from it. It's economic self harm dressed up as nationalist policy. And the human stories are devastating. Nelson Vandermir, that 30-year Howard Miller veteran, told reporters, 'I loved my job. I love the people I work with. When you love something, it's tormenting to lose it. I got 10 more years before I'm ready to retire. I can work if I find something.' He's one of 195 people in a small Michigan community now competing for jobs that don't exist because a trade war destroyed their employer. So 17:00 what are legal and economic experts saying about this crisis? Because the analysis from across the political spectrum is remarkably consistent. This is unsustainable, potentially illegal, and economically catastrophic. The conservative lawyer and Trump critic this channel is named after has repeatedly pointed out that Trump's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs likely violates both the Constitution's separation of powers and the specific statutory limitations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. As Conway noted in recent commentary, emergency powers are designed for genuine national security threats, not as tools to bypass Congress and void trade agreements. The Supreme Court heard arguments on this exact question, and legal scholars predict the court will strike down the tariffs as executive overreach. 'Former ambassador Gordon Gifin was even more blunt in his assessment.' 'Trump has fallen in love with tariffs,' Gifin said, calling the president's approach fundamentally at 18:02 odds with the trade agreement Trump himself negotiated. Other former diplomats have described Ambassador Hoostra's behavior as unprecedented in its inappropriateness. 'Diplomacy requires restraint, respect, and relationship building,' one former ambassador told reporters on Background. 'What we're seeing is the opposite of all three. The political reactions have been fascinating to watch. In Canada, the crisis has triggered a nationalist movement that propelled Mark Carney, a former Bank of Canada governor, to a stunning electoral victory this spring. Carney ran on a platform of reducing Canadian economic dependence on the United States, investing $6 billion to strengthen non US exports and standing up to Trump's bullying. A politician won by campaigning against America. Let that sink in. In the United States, the White House response has been defiant. A White House spokesperson told ProPublica that 19:01 the cost of tariffs will ultimately be paid by the foreign exporters who rely on access to the American economy. That statement is economically illiterate. Every major study from the Tax Foundation to the Peterson Institute to Yale's Budget Lab confirms that Americans pay tariffs through higher prices. Congressional reactions have split along party lines, but with interesting exceptions. Representative Bill Huisena, who represents the Michigan district losing Howard Miller, issued a newsletter in 2018 pushing back on Trump's first term tariffs, writing that any perceived short-term gain may be quickly blunted by hardworking men and women losing their jobs. By 2025, Hedzena had reversed course, supporting Trump's tariffs. His spokesperson claimed economic realities changed postcoid, but the change looks more political than economic. Public sentiment has shifted dramatically. In 20:00 Canada, anti-American attitudes are at levels not seen in generations. Grassroots by Cananadian movements have emerged. Certain stores emptied their shelves of American alcohol. Hockey fans booed during the American anthem at games. These are cultural shifts that will take years or decades to reverse. But here's what really concerns analysts looking at the short-term effects. Trade talks have been completely stalled since October with no signs of resuming. Canadian Prime Minister Carney said recently that the US violated KUSMA and is not a reliable partner in the next 30 to 90 days. Experts predict three possible scenarios. First, the Supreme Court could strike down Trump's emergency tariffs, forcing a reset. Second, Trump could declare another emergency and impose even higher tariffs. Third, and perhaps most likely, the stalemate continues. Both economies slow further and recession risks increase. Looking at the medium-term 6 21:02 to 12 months, economists warned that if this trade war continues, we're looking at potential recession in Canada, significant slowdown in US growth, inflation staying elevated, and the Federal Reserve trapped between fighting inflation and supporting growth. As one Bank of Canada official put it, 'Restoring open trade between our countries is critical to jobs and growth in Canada. It is also important for prices and inflation. The same applies to the United States. Let me recap the three most critical points. First, Trump's ambassador to Canada has systematically destroyed diplomatic relations through behavior that would get any other official fired. Second, the tariffs are costing American households $1,200 annually while pushing both economies toward recession and eliminating jobs. in Trumpup supporting states. Third, this crisis is 22:01 undermining America's credibility with all our allies. If we can tear up agreements with Canada, no treaty is safe. Here's the bottom line. We're watching economic nationalism destroy the prosperity it claims to protect. So, what do you think happens next? Will the Supreme Court strike down these tariffs? Will Trump double down? Will Canada and the US find a path back to cooperation, or are we witnessing a permanent rupture in North American relations? Let me know in the comments. If you want to stay informed on stories the mainstream media won't fully cover, make sure you're subscribed and hit the bell icon so you don't miss the next breakdown. The stakes have never been higher and understanding what's really happening has never been more important. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next

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