'It's done': Trump's 51st state comments are 'behind us,' says U.S. ambassador to Canada

OTTAWA — U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says the president has put the issue of Canada becoming a state “behind us.” Hoekstra says the meeting U.S. President Donald Trump held with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House earlier this week allowed both sides to move past some of the issues that have coloured the U.S.-Canada relationship over the past 90 days.  One of those has been Trump’s repeated comments that he would like Canada to become part of th