TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on the U.S. ambassador to Canada to apologize to Ontario's representative in Washington after sources say the ambassador shouted profanely about the province's anti-tariff ad.

Sources who spoke to trade representative David Paterson after the incident at an event Monday in Ottawa but were not authorized to speak about it publicly told The Canadian Press that Pete Hoekstra yelled at Paterson over an ad Ontario was running in the U.S.

Ford said Wednesday that he understands that exchanges get heated sometimes, but the right thing for Hoekstra to do would be to call Paterson and apologize.

"It's unbecoming of an ambassador," Ford said.

"(I've) never heard of this in my entire life, but the ambassador is a different type of cat. He thinks I'm

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