House Herxter was confirmed as an American ambassador in Canada

The US Senate confirmed on Wednesday that Beit Herchestra, a former ambassador in the Netherlands, is an ambassador to Canada, and a position to be tense by President Donald Trump’s policy of President Donald Trump about annexation.

The vote was from 60 to 37 in favor of Hoekstra, with the support of many Democrats as well as Trump’s Republican colleagues of a candidate who was also executive of business and a Republican member in the House of Representatives.

Hoekstra, who succeeds David Cohen, comes at a time when the relations between Washington and Ottawa are more tense than it was years ago, amid a global trade war and hostile discourse that made diplomatic relations.

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American officials initially made conflicting data on whether the primary line tariffs are 10 percent on all goods will apply to Canada. The White House confirmed that it will not do so. Paul Bodri, the former deputy governor of Canada Bank, says it’s good news for Canada at the present time – but the Trump administration is still changing its opinion at any time.

In the hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month, Hoxra said he was looking at Canada as an independent country, pointing out close relations between Michigan and Ontario.

“Canada is a sovereign state,” said Hoxra in the hearing, when the democratic Senator Chris Konz from Delaweer asked Canada as a sovereign state.

Trump suggested that the United States should include Canada, in reference to it again and again as an American state.

Konz was among the members of the Senate who voted against the nomination.

Canada “our most valuable business partner”: Hoekstra

All Republicans present to the Hoekstra confirm, as others are often represented by countries that share a Canadian border, including Gary Peters and Elisa Slutin from Michigan, Jin Shaheen from New Hampshire, and Maine’s Angus King, an independent that infiltrates with Democrats.

Hoekstra praised in a statement as “our most valuable business partner, the largest exporter of foreign investment and the largest source of energy imports.”

He said: “As an ambassador to Canada, I will work with the Canadian government to review and enhance our strong business partnership, secure our borders, and face the deadly threat to Fintanel for our citizens and build our national security cooperation.”

Hoekstra, 71, served in Trump’s first ambassador in the Netherlands, where his family follows its origins. He previously worked in Congress from 1993 to 2011 for Michigan.

While dates were praised in general, including By business groupsThe global project against hatred and extremism previously announced its opposition to selection, as Hoekstra threw data during his political career, and they said that “anti -immigrants, anti -Muslims and hostile to gay and gay.