What can Ottawa expect when Trump ambassador Pete Hoekstra comes to town?

After helping Donald Trump flip Michigan to Republican red, Pete Hoekstra was one of the first ambassadors announced by the president-elect.

Incoming U.S. envoy to Canada Pete Hoekstra was the American ambassador to the Netherlands during Donald Trump's first term in the White House. Global Entrepreneurship Summit photograph by Valerie Kuypers/Flickr

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BY NEIL MOSS

November 27, 2024

A former border-state lawmaker who had a steep learning curve to diplomatic life as a past American envoy in the Netherlands, Pete Hoekstra is United States president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next ambassador to Canada.

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