{"id":242199,"date":"2025-10-26T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242199\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:26:09","slug":"despite-trumps-anger-canadian-politicians-wont-say-ontarios-anti-tariff-ad-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242199\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Trump’s anger, Canadian politicians won’t say Ontario’s anti-tariff ad was a mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although U.S. President Donald Trump has shredded Canada-U.S. trade talks over an Ontario government anti-tariff advertisement, Canadian politicians all the way from the municipal to the federal level are backing Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s approach and won\u2019t say the ad was a mistake.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support the premier\u2019s approach,\u201d Brampton, Ont., Mayor Patrick Brown said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live on Sunday. \u201cSometimes you need to throw a rock in a pond to get a splash. He\u2019s got a reaction. It\u2019s got a lot of coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad our premier had the courage to call out the U.S. president on inconsistencies,\u201d Brown told host Rosemary Barton.<\/p>\n

Ontario\u2019s advertisement uses the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s own words to send an anti-tariff message to American audiences.<\/p>\n

It appears to have struck a nerve with U.S. President Donald Trump, who first cut off trade negotiations with Canada on Thursday evening over the advertisement and then promised to increase \u201cthe Tariff on Canada\u201d by 10 per cent on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

WATCH | What Canada’s next play with U.S. trade talks? Politicians, journalists weigh in:\"\"<\/p>\n

What will get Canada-U.S. trade talks back on track?<\/p>\n

Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton discusses where trade talks go after Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s U.S. ad, with the Sunday Scrum panel of Globe and Mail reporter Ian Bailey, CBC Radio\u2019s The House host Catherine Cullen and Toronto Star\u2019s Queen\u2019s Park bureau chief Robert Benzie. Plus, P.E.I. Premier Rob Lantz, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Frank McKenna and Justin Trudeau\u2019s former deputy chief of staff, Brian Clow, join the show to discuss trade negotiations.<\/p>\n

Trump claims the ad is fraudulent and fake. The president and his advisers have also argued Canada is trying to influence an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case which will decide whether U.S. tariffs that Trump imposed on Canada for national security purposes were constitutional.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Face The Nation airing Sunday morning on CBS, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Ford “seems to have come off the rails a little” and argued that the advertisement is \u201cinterference in U.S. sovereign matters.”<\/p>\n

B.C. Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar told Barton on Sunday he thinks Ontario\u2019s ad was effective and it \u201cwoke the president up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parmer also said his government will run its own anti-tariff ads next month to defend British Columbia’s forestry industry, but it won\u2019t be as expansive as Ford\u2019s ad campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe certainly appreciate the hard work that Premier Ford is doing. We\u2019re going to be very measured in our approach,\u201d Parmar said.<\/p>\n

WATCH | B.C. economic growth minister explains why his province will run anti-tariff ads:\"\"<\/p>\n

B.C. minister speaks on plan to run anti-Trump tariff ads<\/p>\n

B.C. will run anti-tariff ads in some U.S. states in November, despite President Donald Trump saying he will terminate trade negotiations with Canada over similar ads out of Ontario. B.C. economic growth minister Ravi Kahlon said “speaking directly to U.S. citizens is important.”<\/p>\n

Prince Edward Island Premier Rob Lantz said on Sunday that Ford \u201chas been a very strong voice for Ontario\u201d and very effective at communicating Canadians\u2019 frustrations with the tariffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis ad was very clever,\u201d Lantz said. \u201cBut he\u2019s decided to pull it and I respect that and now we can continue to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the federal level, Liberal House leader Steven MacKinnon said in an interview that aired Sunday morning \u201cDoug Ford\u2019s on Team Canada. He\u2019s maybe our first line setter. He\u2019s been an incredible patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacKinnon, who spoke with Barton before Trump\u2019s latest tariff threat, added that he\u2019s \u201cloath to criticize\u201d Ford for anything.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Liberal House leader discusses upcoming budget, Canada-U.S. trade blowup:\"\"<\/p>\n

Government House leader says \u2018hard choices\u2019 are necessary in the upcoming federal budget<\/p>\n

Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks with Liberal House leader Steven MacKinnon about how the terminated trade talks with the U.S. will impact the Canadian economy, and what it means ahead of the upcoming budget. Plus, Canadian parent Zach Robichaud talks about the financial pressures facing young families ahead of the federal government’s budget in November. And on the Sunday Scrum, Globe and Mail reporter Ian Bailey, CBC Radio\u2019s The House host Catherine Cullen and Toronto Star\u2019s Queen\u2019s Park bureau chief Robert Benzie discuss what challenges it could face getting through a minority Parliament.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Ford said he will pull the ad from U.S. screens after this weekend. The ad aired during Saturday night’s World Series game, meaning millions more Americans saw the clip since it first began running in mid-October.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted to social media that day<\/a>, Ford said his province\u2019s intention \u201cwas 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

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

So what does Canada do next?<\/p>\n

As things stand, Canada must now navigate how to get U.S. discussions back on track and stave off Trump\u2019s latest tariff threat. Despite the president\u2019s social media post, it remains unclear whether he\u2019s actually followed through on the promise or will follow through later.<\/p>\n

Brian Clow, former deputy chief of staff to prime minister Justin Trudeau, said on Sunday that Carney \u201cshould be trying to find Donald Trump\u201d in the hallways of a summit they\u2019re both attending right now in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOntario\u2019s now done the thing that the president wants,\u201d Clow said. \u201cThe ad will be pulled in the next 24 hours. So that gives the prime minister something positive to say to Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

WATCH | U.S. Democratic senator says Trump’s ‘temper tantrum’ will blow over eventually:\"\"<\/p>\n

U.S. senator says it’s ’embarrassing’ to have a president ‘who lets an ad rattle him so deeply’<\/p>\n

In a Canadian exclusive interview, chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks with U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine about U.S. President Donald Trump terminating trade talks over an ad by the Ontario government featuring a voiceover and clip from former Republican president Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n

In his social media post Saturday afternoon, Trump argued the \u201cAdvertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing it was a FRAUD.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank McKenna, a former Canadian ambassador to the United States, said on Sunday it\u2019s possible Canada was getting too close to a deal and Trump wanted to \u201cpush us off the puck a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of Carney\u2019s objectives on this Southeast Asia trip is seeking out stronger trade ties with countries in the region to ease Canada\u2019s reliance on U.S. trade. McKenna said the prime minister is \u201cdoing the right things\u201d to push the U.S. to acknowledge how much it needs Canadian trade.<\/p>\n

Likewise, Brown said Carney has been collaborative with the United States \u201cbut at some point, if we don\u2019t have a partner in these trade talks, you can\u2019t get a deal done. And you have to look at other alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although U.S. President Donald Trump has shredded Canada-U.S. trade talks over an Ontario government anti-tariff advertisement, Canadian politicians…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-242199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242199","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=242199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}