{"id":14596,"date":"2025-07-22T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14596\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:49:07","slug":"trump-thinks-canadians-are-nasty-to-deal-with-for-avoiding-u-s-travel-banning-booze-ambassador-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14596\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump thinks Canadians are \u2018nasty\u2019 to deal with for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze, ambassador says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra speaks during a Fourth of July party at Lornado, the residence of the ambassador from the United States, in Ottawa, on July 4.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canadians avoiding travel to the United States and banning American alcohol are among the reasons U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> thinks they are \u201cnasty\u201d to deal with, the U.S. ambassador to Canada said Monday.<\/p>\n

Pete Hoekstra told a conference audience that such steps \u201cdon\u2019t send positive signals\u201d about Canada treating the United States well.<\/p>\n

Hoekstra was speaking at the annual Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation summit in Bellevue, Washington.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Press was provided with a recording of the ambassador\u2019s comments by the office of B.C. Premier David Eby, which said it received the audio from someone who was in the audience.<\/p>\n

Eby said in a statement that Hoekstra\u2019s remarks show Canadians\u2019 efforts to stand up to Trump are \u201chaving an impact,\u201d and he encouraged people to \u201ckeep it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

A representative of Hoekstra\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Canada Day 2025: \u2018Elbows up,\u2019 party down<\/a><\/p>\n

The ambassador made the remarks in answer to a question from a conference moderator about what could be done to get people travelling again as Vancouver and Seattle prepare to host games as part of next year\u2019s FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanadians staying home, that\u2019s their business, you know. I don\u2019t like it, but if that\u2019s what they want to do, it\u2019s fine. They want to ban American alcohol. That\u2019s fine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are reasons why the President and some of his team referred to Canada as being mean and nasty to deal with, OK, because of some of those steps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoekstra added that he \u201ccan get alcohol across the border if [he] wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go back and forth to Michigan and they don\u2019t check my car when I come back,\u201d he said, drawing laughs from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Eby\u2019s statement in response to Hoekstra\u2019s remarks said people should keep buying Canadian products and keep their vacations Canadian.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t take these attacks on our jobs, our economy and our sovereignty, lying down. We\u2019ll stand strong together,\u201d the premier said in the emailed statement.<\/p>\n

B.C. is among the provinces that banned the sale of U.S. alcohol from government-run stores after Trump slapped steep tariffs<\/a> on goods from Canada. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s actions have prompted some Canadians to cancel their cross-border trips.<\/p>\n

In March, the number of Canadians returning home by car from south of the border fell nearly 32 per cent compared to the same month last year.<\/p>\n

It was the third consecutive month of year-over-year declines and the steepest plunge since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n

Return trips by air meanwhile fell 13.5 per cent year-over-year that month.<\/p>\n

Hoekstra said on social media platform X on Monday that he spoke at the summit \u201cabout the Cascadia Corridor\u2019s importance to both the United States and Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Trump \u201cis focused on delivering a future that is safe, secure, and prosperous, and building that future includes co-operation with Canada and the Pacific Northwest region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra speaks during a Fourth of July party at Lornado,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-14596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}