Ottawa, Canada - US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is facing significant opposition after more than 29,000 Canadians signed a petition to have him kicked out of the country.

The petition will be presented to Canada's House of Commons this fall, requesting that Hoekstra be declared "persona non grata" and removed from his position as the US' Ambassador to Canada.

Additionally, it requests that Ottawa raise Hoekstra's conduct with the US as inconsistent with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and direct a parliamentary committee to review Washington's diplomatic interference in Canada.

Established in 1961, the convention defines a framework for how diplomatic relations are conducted between countries. It establishes the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of a diplomat or ambassador.

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Hoekstra is accused in the petition of making repeated statements "undermining the Canada-US diplomatic relations, including characterizing the 2025 Canadian federal election as 'anti-American.'"

"Ambassador Hoekstra has normalized the Trump administration's threats to annex Canada as the '51st state,' describing such rhetoric as a 'term of endearment,'" the petition continues.

"Hoekstra has accused Canada of interfering in US domestic politics while himself making repeated interventions in Canadian political discourse inconsistent with diplomatic protocol."

The diplomat has repeatedly found himself in hot water after making controversial and oft-times offensive statements about Canada and its government.

In July, he claimed that President Donald Trump's tariff attacks had actually helped Canada and falsely suggested Ottawa had not really paid for the Gordie Howe International Bridge.

Brushing off the importance of the US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, Hoekstra in January said: "We do not need Canada."

Months earlier, he accused Canada of conducting electoral interference against the US, something the Trump administration has repeatedly done in other countries.

"You do not come into America and start running political ads, government-funded political ads… and expect that there will be no consequences," he raged.