Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, sounded off again on Ontario's anti-tariff ad at the National Manufacturing Conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, continuing a trend of perhaps less-than-diplomatic comments in just six months on the job.

The Ontario government ad campaign featured clips of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs, though it left out Reagan explaining he was making a temporary exception to his position, with Japan on trade. The ad backed by Premier Doug Ford ran nationally during the World Series, and Trump railed against it, breaking off trade deal talks, after making earlier comments that were more ambivalent.

"Targeting the president of the United States and his policies 10 days before an election, in a couple of weeks before a Su

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