Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney and his chief of staff saw Ontario’s anti-tariff advertisement featuring the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan before it was released.
“He saw the ad before I put it out, so did his chief of staff. They both saw it, and we moved forward on it,” Ford told reporters at Queen’s Park on Oct. 27.
Ford said in the Ontario legislature on Oct. 27 that his ad campaign was “the best ad that ever ran.” Ford also said he was confident that U.S. President Donald Trump would not be following through on his threat to increase tariffs on Canada by 10 percent. Trump pledged the tariff hike on Oct. 25 in response to the ad….