Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on the U.S. ambassador to Canada to apologize to the province’s trade representative, saying Pete Hoekstra’s behaviour was “absolutely unacceptable,” but added he felt he got “heated.”

“Pete, you gotta call Dave up and apologize, it’s simple, the cheese slipped off the cracker,” Ford said Wednesday. “I get it, you’re ticked off, but call the guy up because you’re a good guy and Dave’s my champion.”

Ford was referring to a report in the Globe and Mail that Hoekstra went on what was called an expletive-filled dressing-down against Ontario’s trade representative, David Paterson, at the annual Canadian American Business Council gala on Monday over a commercial Ford’s government released last week.

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