U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said restarting trade talks with Canada will not be easy after they were cancelled by Washington following the airing of Ontario’s anti-tariff ad down south.
Hoekstra said the move by Ontario Premier Doug Ford appeared to be without precedent and that anyone should “seriously consider” before adopting such a strategy to reach political objectives in the United States.
Hoekstra said, while attending the National Manufacturing Conference in Ottawa Nov. 19, that “no one can even remember a circumstance where a foreign government came into the United States” to broadcast an ad “targeting the president of the United States and his policies 10 days before an election and a couple of weeks before a Supreme Court case would be heard.”…