Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney phoned him several times during his trip to Asia, asking Ford to remove an anti-tariff advertisement that angered U.S. President Donald Trump.
“He called me from Asia a couple times and said, ‘pull the ad,’ and I said I wasn’t going to do it until we’re going to pause the ad on Monday [Oct. 27]. And that’s exactly what we did,” Ford told reporters in Queen’s Park on Nov. 3.
The Ontario government’s advertising campaign, which aired on U.S. television networks, featured audio from former U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 address to the nation, in which he spoke about the value of free trade….