{"id":260127,"date":"2025-11-04T02:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260127\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:50:11","slug":"how-it-started-how-it-ended-a-chronology-of-ontarios-ad-blitz-against-u-s-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260127\/","title":{"rendered":"How it started, how it ended: A chronology of Ontario\u2019s ad blitz against U.S. tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a day-by-day chronology of the controversy over Ontario\u2019s advertising campaign against U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods:<\/p>\n

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Tues., Oct. 14: The office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will spend $75 million to broadcast an anti-tariff ad in the United States using video of an address by former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who said in 1987 that in the long run, \u201csuch trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tues., Oct. 21: A day after the ad airs during a broadcast of a baseball playoff game won by the Toronto Blue Jays, U.S. President Donald Trump says he saw the commercial, adding \u201cif I was Canada I\u2019d take that same ad also.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thu., Oct. 23: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute says the ad misrepresents Reagan\u2019s remarks and that Ontario did not seek or receive permission to \u201cuse and edit the remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump says he is ending trade negotiations with Canada over the commercial.<\/p>\n

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The ad isn\u2019t a \u201cfake\u201d as Trump claims, but Reagan\u2019s quotes are spliced together from different sections of the original speech.<\/p>\n

Ford\u2019s office defends the ad.<\/p>\n

Fri., Oct. 24: Trump accuses Canada of \u201ccheating\u201d by saying that Reagan did not like tariffs, which Trump claims the late president \u201cloved.\u201d<\/p>\n

David McLaughlin and Geoff Norquay, who worked as senior policy advisers for former prime minister Brian Mulroney, say the ad did not misconstrue Reagan\u2019s views on trade.<\/p>\n

Ford says his government will pull the ad after the weekend, though it\u2019s still set to run during the first two games of the World Series.<\/p>\n

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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew encourages Ford to keep the ad campaign going, saying Trump\u2019s tariffs betray Reagan\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

Sat., Oct. 25: Trump says the U.S. will impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on Canadian goods because Ontario didn\u2019t immediately pull down the ad.<\/p>\n

Mon., Oct. 27: Ford vows he will \u201cnever apologize\u201d for pushing back against hostile trade measures designed to poach jobs from his province.<\/p>\n

Fri., Oct. 31: Trump says Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized for the ad but the U.S. president adds that trade talks are not resuming.<\/p>\n

Sat., Nov. 1: Carney confirms he apologized to Trump and says he told Ford he didn\u2019t think the province should run the ad campaign.<\/p>\n

Sun., Nov. 2: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the ad amounted to foreign interference in American public policy.<\/p>\n

Mon., Nov. 3: Ford says Carney called him \u201ca couple of times\u201d from a trip to Asia to ask him to pull the ad campaign.<\/p>\n

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