{"id":254916,"date":"2025-11-01T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:45:12","slug":"canadas-pm-carney-says-he-apologized-to-trump-over-anti-tariff-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254916\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s PM Carney says he apologized to Trump over anti-tariff ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> said on Nov. 1 he has apologized to President Donald Trump<\/a> for an ad run by a provincial government that angered the U.S. leader<\/a> and prompted him to put a halt to trade negotiations.<\/p>\n

“I did apologize to the president,” Carney told reporters in South Korea.<\/p>\n

The ad, which was run by the Ontario provincial government and not by the Canadian federal government, was played during World Series games and featured a snippet of remarks by former President Ronald Reagan in 1987. In the remarks, Reagan spoke critically of tariffs. The ad included the conservative icon’s accurate remarks, but spliced select phrases from a longer address. Trump has criticized it as “FAKE.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Canadians fighting Trump\u2019s tariffs, surge in patriotism<\/p>\n

1 of 11<\/p>\n

Alain Ejeil and his wife Joyce Takla at their Bidon Taverne Culinaire in St. Lambert, Quebec in the Montreal area at the bar. Ejeil stopped buying American food items and pulled U.S.-made wines and spirits from his shelves back in February after President Donald Trump started to taunt Canada with the threat of tariffs and American statehood. It wasn’t an easy decision, he said, but as a Canadian, it was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

In response, Trump announced on social media he was terminating trade negotiations with Canada, and claimed the ad misrepresented Reagan’s views. He also announced a 10% increase on tariffs on goods<\/a> coming from the United States’ neighbor to the north. His move came as the president has imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from countries including Canada, and as the\u00a0Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0on Nov. 5 is set to hear oral arguments in a case that will decide the fate of the tariffs.<\/p>\n

Trump, tariffs and the World Series: How a TV ad upended trade talks between U.S., Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

The ad was commissioned by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who announced the ad would be paused starting Oct. 27 \u00a0“so that trade talks can resume.”<\/p>\n

“I told Ford I did not want to go forward with the ad,” Carney said on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

Carney said he made his apology when they both attended a dinner hosted by South Korea’s president on Oct. 29. Trump has said he had a “very nice” conversation with Carney at that dinner.<\/p>\n

What did the ad show?<\/p>\n

The 60-second ad condensed remarks made during a longer speech by Reagan in an April 25, 1987 radio address, days after he increased tariffs on some Japanese imports\u00a0in response to Japan violating a semiconductor trade agreement. In that talk, Reagan made it clear he is not a fan of tariffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen someone says, \u2018Let\u2019s impose tariffs on foreign imports,\u2019 it looks like they\u2019re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while, it works, but only for a short time,\u201d Reagan said in the ad.<\/p>\n

The White House objected because the ad omitted another part of Reagan\u2019s address. \u201cAs I\u2019ve often said,\u201d the former president said in the original remarks, \u201cour commitment to free trade is also a commitment to fair trade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more on how Reagan felt about tariffs.<\/a><\/p>\n

Contributing: Michael Collins and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY; Reuters<\/p>\n

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