{"id":854571,"date":"2026-08-11T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854571\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:50:15","slug":"thousands-sign-petition-calling-for-pete-hoekstras-removal-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854571\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands sign petition calling for Pete Hoekstra\u2019s removal from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The online petition accuses Pete Hoekstra of making statements that undermine the Canada-U.S. relationship and of intervening in Canadian political discourse in a manner inconsistent with diplomatic protocol.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

A petition set to be presented in the House of Commons this fall calls on the government to declare the U.S. ambassador persona non grata and remove him from Canada.<\/p>\n

The online petition accuses Pete Hoekstra<\/a> of making statements that undermine the Canada-U.S. relationship and of intervening in Canadian political discourse in a manner inconsistent with diplomatic protocol.<\/p>\n

It says the Liberal government should also direct a parliamentary committee to review U.S. diplomatic interference in Canadian affairs.<\/p>\n

More than 29,000 people have signed the petition, which was launched by a woman from Calgary and will be presented in Parliament by Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.<\/p>\n

Hoekstra made headlines this summer by saying that Canada\u2019s annexation by the United States would be a great topic of discussion for Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

A persona non grata declaration is a tool in the UN\u2019s Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations that allows a country to strip diplomatic immunity from an individual and force them to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The online petition accuses Pete Hoekstra of making statements that undermine the Canada-U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854572,"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-854571","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\/854571","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=854571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}