Prime Minister Mark Carney said he told Ontario Premier Doug Ford not to run the anti-tarfiff advertisement in the United States, which caused U.S. President Donald Trump to stop trade negotiations with Canada and say he’ll hike tariffs.
Ontario’s $75 million advertising campaign featured clips of the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaking about tariffs and the value of free trade.
Carney told reporters on Nov. 1 during a news conference at the close of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea that he had told Ford not to run the ad.
Ford said he wanted Americans to learn the harm tariffs are causing, and that Carney viewed the ads before they were released by Ontario….