Time - President Donald Trump said the U.S. has “terminated” trade negotiations with Canada over an advertising campaign against tariffs that allegedly misused an audio clip from former President Ronald Reagan:
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday night. “Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
The government of Ontario launched earlier this month a television ad, which is said to have cost $75,000,000 Canadian dollars (about US$54 million) and is expected to run through January on networks including Newsmax, Fox, and NBC. The ad quotes from Reagan’s April 25, 1987 ‘Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade.’
“When someone says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works—but only for a short time,” the ad, which splices together quotes from Reagan’s speech, says. “Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.”
Trump argued that the ad aims to “interfere” with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of the President’s tariffs. The court is expected to hear oral arguments in the case on Nov. 5. He also shared a statement from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute that claimed the ad “misrepresents” Reagan’s speech by using “selective” audio and video and that “the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks.
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