I signed it hahaha gtfo -BREAKING: OH, CANADA! Petition to KICK OUT Trump’s ambassador explodes to nearly 200,000 signatures as Canadian fury at America catches fire! Well, that escalated quickly. On Friday, OD reported that more than 70,000 Canadians had signed a petition demanding that their government expel Donald Trump's ambassador, Pete Hoekstra (pictured right, at the Embassy's Fourth of July party.) Two days later, that number has nearly TRIPLED. More than 190,000 Canadians have now signed the petition calling on their government to declare Hoekstra “persona non grata” and remove him from the country, as anger over Trump's treatment of America's closest neighbor continues to spread. And this isn't just an internet protest or political statement. Only 500 signatures are required for an online petition to be brought before Canada's Parliament. Green Party leader Elizabeth May is expected to bring this one forward for debate this fall. The petition accuses Hoekstra of helping normalize Trump's repeated threats to annex Canada as America's “51st state” and of interfering in Canadian domestic politics, including through contacts between State Department officials and Alberta separatists. Hoekstra hasn't exactly gone out of his way to soothe the Canadians. He has reposted Trump's 51st-state taunts and dismissed Canadian outrage over the rhetoric as “emotional.” When asked last year whether he understood why Canadians were so angry about Trump's annexation talk, he offered a jaw-dropping response. “Yeah, you're right. I don't.” But the breathtaking growth of this petition is only the latest sign that something much larger is happening north of the border. Trump has spent his second term hitting Canada with tariffs, ridiculing its sovereignty and repeatedly talking about absorbing the country into the United States. Canadians increasingly appear to be responding not merely by rejecting Trump, but by turning away from America itself. The numbers are painful. In 2022, 82 percent of Canadians considered the United States a reliable partner. According to Pew, that figure has now collapsed to just 35 percent. And Canadians are voting with their wallets. Recreational visits to the United States have fallen by more than a quarter over the past year, while “Buy Canadian” campaigns have encouraged consumers to leave American products sitting on store shelves. But nearly 200,000 people demanding the unprecedented expulsion of an American ambassador is about much more than one abrasive diplomat. Canada isn't some far-away adversary. Americans and Canadians have fought wars together, built one of the world's largest trading relationships, crossed each other's border by the millions and spent generations taking the friendship between our countries almost for granted. Our little brother, if you will. Trump has managed to make millions of our closest neighbors question whether the United States is a country they can trust at all. Presidents eventually leave office.