"United States President Donald Trump has said the US and Canada will not restart trade talks on account of an Ontario political advertisement using former President Ronald Reagan saying tariffs spell disaster. Trump said on Friday that even though Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had apologised to him for the advertisement, the two countries would not be restarting trade talks. I like him a lot, but what they did was wrong, he said. He apologised for what they did with the commercial because it was a false commercial."
"Trump last week called off negotiations over the advertisement aired by the Canadian province of Ontario, adding he was increasing tariffs on Canada by an additional 10 percent. The advertisement by the Ontario government featured Republican icon Reagan saying that tariffs on foreign goods lead to trade wars and job losses. Reagan was known for his support of free markets and free trade. Trump has decried the advertisement, which ran on US platforms, as fake."
United States President Donald Trump said the US and Canada will not restart trade talks because an Ontario political advertisement used former President Ronald Reagan saying tariffs spell disaster. Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had apologised to him for the advertisement but still halted negotiations and increased tariffs on Canada by an additional 10 percent. The Ontario government advertisement featured spliced clips of Reagan warning that tariffs on foreign goods lead to trade wars and job losses. Ontario Premier Doug Ford paused the advertisements to allow talks to move forward. Canada said it is ready to sit down for negotiations. Historically, about 75 percent of Canadian exports have gone to the United States; those flows have been disrupted by the tariffs.
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