U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s expletive-laced tirade towards Ontario’s trade representative was “absolutely unacceptable” and “unbecoming of an ambassador,” said Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday.

It comes days after Hoekstra was seen in a heated rant towards David Paterson, Ontario’s trade representative, at a Canadian American Business Council event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses told CBC News.

Sources at the event spoke with CBC News on the condition that they not be named.

The heated exchange, allegedly laced with f-bombs, mentioned Ford by name and appeared to have been spurred by Ontario’s anti-tariff ad that ran on television in the U.S. until Monday — something that has infuriated U.S. President Donald Trump.

While Ford doubled down that the ad was “the right thing to

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