{"id":238543,"date":"2025-10-25T05:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238543\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:25:07","slug":"ontario-premier-says-hell-pull-ad-that-upset-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238543\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario premier says he’ll pull ad that upset Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 The leader of Canada\u2019s most populous province said Friday he\u2019ll pull the anti-tariff ad that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to end trade talks<\/a> with Canada. <\/p>\n

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said after talking with Prime Minister Mark Carney he\u2019s decided to pause the advertising campaign effective Monday so that trade talks can resume. <\/p>\n

Trump<\/a> announced he\u2019s ending \u201call trade negotiations\u201d with Canada because of a television ad sponsored by Ontario that used the words of former President Ronald Reagan to criticize U.S. tariffs. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve achieved our goal, having reached U.S. audiences at the highest levels,\u201d Ford said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford said the commercials will continue to run this weekend including during the first World Series games between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve directed my team to keep putting our message in front of Americans over the weekend so that we can air our commercial during the first two World Series games,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Indeed, the ad aired Friday night during the seventh inning of Fox\u2019s national broadcast of Game 1. The Blue Jays were leading 11-4.<\/p>\n

On Thursday Trump posted, \u201cThe Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump doubled down on his criticism of the Ontario ads Friday and accused Canada of trying to influence an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling on his global tariff regime.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s call for an abrupt end to negotiations<\/a> has further inflamed trade tensions between the neighbors and longtime allies. <\/p>\n

Carney said this week he aims to double his country\u2019s exports to countries outside the U.S.<\/a> because of the threat posed by Trump\u2019s tariffs. Canadian officials remain ready to continue talks to reduce tariffs in certain sectors, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t control the trade policy of the United States. We recognize that that policy has fundamentally changed from the 1980s,\u201d Carney said Friday morning before boarding a flight to Asia. \u201cWe have to focus on what we can control and realize what we can\u2019t control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carney is trying to secure a trade deal with Trump<\/a>, but tariffs are taking a toll<\/a> in the aluminum, steel, auto and lumber sectors.<\/p>\n

Carney spoke to Ford Thursday night and again Friday. <\/p>\n

White House spokesman Kush Desai said talks with Canada have not led to any constructive progress. <\/p>\n

\u201cOntario\u2019s taxpayer-funded ad campaign on American TV networks \u2014 that misleadingly edited President Reagan\u2019s 1987 radio address about trade \u2014 is the latest example of how Canadian officials would rather play games than engage with the Administration,\u201d Desai said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs President Trump made clear on Truth Social, further talks are a futile effort if Canada can\u2019t be serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ontario government has said it would pay about $75 million Canadian (US$54 million) for the ads to air across multiple American television stations using audio and video of Reagan speaking about tariffs in 1987.<\/p>\n

Ford said earlier this week he had heard that Trump had seen the ad. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure he wasn\u2019t too happy,\u201d Ford said. <\/p>\n

He said the aim is to \u201cblast\u201d the pro-trade message to Americans. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s real, because it was coming from the best president the country\u2019s ever seen, Ronald Reagan,\u201d Ford said. \u201cI feel the Reagan Republicans are going to be fighting with the MAGA group, and let\u2019s hope, Reagan Republicans win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford is a populist conservative who doesn\u2019t belong to the same party as Carney, a Liberal. <\/p>\n

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and British Columbia Premier David Eby backed Ford. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clear that these ads are working. If you throw a rock at a lake and you don\u2019t hear a splash, you probably missed. So to my good friend Doug Ford, keep the ads on TV. They\u2019re effective, and this country is behind you,\u201d Kinew said. <\/p>\n

Daniel B\u00e9land, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said the ad has backfired \u201cbig time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has been threatening Canada\u2019s economy and sovereignty with tariffs<\/a>, most offensively by claiming Canada could be \u201cthe 51st state.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Jason Kenney, a former Conservative cabinet minister under ex-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, called Trump\u2019s posts \u201cjust embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ontario ad does not misrepresent President Reagan\u2019s anti-tariff radio address in any respect whatsoever. It is a direct replay of his radio address, formatted for a one minute ad,\u201d Kenney posted on social media.<\/p>\n

Kenney also took aim at the Reagan Foundation, saying it \u201cnow has gormless leadership which is easily intimidated by a call from the White House, yet another sign of the hugely corrosive influence of Trump on the American conservative movement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 The leader of Canada\u2019s most populous province said Friday he\u2019ll pull the anti-tariff ad that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,49,48,13192,112486,2662,1376,13743,5143,2841,10443,1687,112485,2659,32024,44,714,72978,91633,10428,8615,883],"class_list":["post-238543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-government","tag-daniel-bland","tag-david-eby","tag-donald-trump","tag-doug-ford","tag-economic-policy","tag-general-news","tag-government-policy","tag-international-trade","tag-jason-kenney","tag-mark-carney","tag-marketing-and-advertising","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-stephen-harper","tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}