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Karen Crofts's avatar

Charlie...theres a grassroots petition on change.org calling for Hoekstra to be sent packing !!

Luc Bouchard's avatar

Has Hoekstra even said thank you once?

Linda Neary's avatar

Agreed. Hoekstra is a dangerous buffoon. Send him packing. Elbows Up. 🇨🇦

Katherine J Shannon's avatar

Telling Canadians we should be grateful America wants to be friends with us? Why are we being so mean to them? I am surprised he didn't ask us why we didn't say thank you! MAGAt Pete cannot "Zolinski" us. I wonder where Trump will send him next? Maybe St Thomas Island? Trump is still tarifing the penguins, maybe Magat Pete can ambassador them!

Nan Taylor's avatar

Dear Charlie, you also might want to remind Pete of the role the Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor, along with MP Flora McDonald and PM Joe Clark, played during the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran. As you will remember, 6 American diplomats were sheltered, at great risk, by the Canadian Ambassador to Iran for 79 days and Canada facilitated their return to the US. That is real leadership! For those of you not familiar with this story, look up "Canadian Caper".

Therese Defoy's avatar

How ironic, he finds Elbows Up threatening, yet his dear leader changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War is not an issue? Canadians are not playing nice, yet his dear leader is sending troops from his Department of War to march on his own people. Perhaps he should spend a little more time at home and chatting up his dear leader.

Mary Mccluskey's avatar

Charlie, a heartfelt thank you for all your hard work speaking up for our Canadian sovereignty and values and also especially travelling to Europe initially to shake them all up! They needed to hear your powerful speech that no one would dare to address. Thank you. Respect. Elbows Up! 🇨🇦🍁

Karen Kelly's avatar

Time for Hoekstra to go. Elbow him OUT!

Susan Halvorsen's avatar

Mr. Ambassador needs to learn to keep his mouth shut. Next time, he should be escorted to the border and elbowed out.

Moira Theede's avatar

Awesome Charlie, So well stated.

Lori's avatar

"You ran a campaign where it was anti-American, elbows up, me too. You know, that was an anti-American campaign...."

Pete Hoekstra's exact words.

My question is why throw the Me Too in there? That is a strange comment. Unless there's a reason that he's bitter about women stepping forward to talk about sexual assault, abuse, trafficking.

Susan Louis-Seize's avatar

Always spot on, Charlie. This Ambassador doesn’t know how to build Canada-US relations, and unfortunately that makes him ideal in Trump’s eyes. This ambassador is void of diplomacy.