U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says he’s offended by the suggestion that President Donald Trump is uninformed about what Canada has to offer his country.

In a tense onstage discussion at the Global Business Forum in Banff, Alta., on Thursday, the diplomat also expressed annoyance that Trump’s musings about making Canada the “51st state” continue to rub many in this country the wrong way.

Colin Robertson, a fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, pressed Hoekstra on what the ambassador is conveying to his boss about Canadians’ sentiment toward the U.S.

“One of the things we’re concerned about is that the president seems not well informed when he says things like, ‘Canada, you haven’t got anything we want.’ In fact, we do, like potash,” he said, garnering applause from the audie

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