{"id":243923,"date":"2025-10-27T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243923\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:56:07","slug":"ford-defends-anti-tariff-reagan-ad-that-derailed-trump-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243923\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford defends anti-tariff Reagan ad that derailed Trump trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford pulled the ad off the air, but only after it ran during the first game of the World Series.Blair Gable\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Ontario Premier Doug Ford<\/a> is defending his TV advertisement that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to scrap trade talks with Canada and threaten higher tariffs, calling it the \u201cmost successful ad in North American history.\u201d <\/p>\n

Responding to questions in the legislature, Mr. Ford said the ad, which features pro-free-trade remarks by former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, had grabbed international attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the most successful ad in the history of North America, not just here,\u201d Mr. Ford told question period at Queen\u2019s Park. \u201cWe had over one billion impressions, meaning one billion views and that\u2019s still counting, from around the world. I was getting calls from people who have relatives in India, in Portugal, in Italy, in Scotland, over in U.K. Every outlet \u2013 small, large, medium \u2013 in the U.S. was talking about the conversation about it\u2019s better to get rid of any of the tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Government of Ontario released this TV ad which will be broadcast in the U.S. that uses a recording of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.<\/p>\n

Government of Ontario<\/p>\n

In a late-night social-media tirade last week, Mr. Trump denounced the ad, falsely accused it of being a \u201cfraud\u201d and announced an immediate end to trade talks with Canada. <\/p>\n

Mr. Ford pulled the ad off the air, but only after it ran during the first game of the World Series. <\/p>\n

Mr. Trump also said he would impose an additional 10-per-cent tariff on Canadian goods. On Monday, he told reporters he would not be meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney again for \u201ca long time.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mr. Carney said on Monday that trade talks stopped after the ad appeared. <\/p>\n

Explainer: What you need to know about Ontario\u2019s anti-tariff ad<\/a><\/p>\n

At Queen\u2019s Park on Monday, Liberal MPP John Fraser accused Mr. Ford of running an ad campaign that botched trade talks in an attempt to \u201cmake him look good\u201d and lay groundwork for a future leap to federal politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the Ontario taxpayer should be funding this Premier\u2019s desire to become the prime minister of Canada,\u201d Mr. Fraser told MPPs in question period. \u201cHe\u2019s doing damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Premier replied by saying that the ad campaign represented $300-million to $400-million of \u201cearned media,\u201d or news coverage behind the paid slots, and that Canada has been waiting months for a deal with the U.S. \u2013 a deal he warned would still leave key sectors behind, including the auto industry. He criticized the federal government\u2019s decision to charge only half the 50 per cent U.S. tariff on steel.<\/p>\n

Opinion: Is Doug Ford\u2019s TV ad to blame for Donald Trump\u2019s tariff tantrum? Be serious<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMy job is to protect the people of Ontario, that\u2019s exactly what I am going to do,\u201d he told the legislature.<\/p>\n

Mr. Fraser said Ontarians would pay with their jobs for Mr. Ford\u2019s ad. <\/p>\n

The Premier responded that Mr. Trump would go through with his threat of increased tariffs. He said that the ad \u201ccreated a conversation with every Republican, Democrat governor, congressperson and senator,\u201d and that all of his fellow premiers supported it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Ontario Premier Doug Ford pulled the ad off the air, but only after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-243923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243923","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=243923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}