US EditionFord says he won’t apologize for anti-tariff ads that scuttled trade talks with U.S.
Ontario’s $75 million anti-tariff campaign prompted U.S. President Trump to impose a 10% tariff, ending trade talks despite Premier Ford calling the ad a success.
- On Oct. 27, 2025, Ontario Premier Doug Ford refused to apologize for an anti-tariff ad his government ran, which U.S. President Donald Trump said ended Canada–United States trade talks.
- The Ontario government’s $75-million campaign last week targeted U.S. audiences with a commercial featuring Ronald Reagan and was produced by a firm tied to the Progressive Conservative party.
- Standing before journalists at Queen's Park, Ford defended the commercial as the most successful ad in North America and said it 'generated a conversation' in the U.S., adding the prime minister and his chief of staff saw it before it aired.
- Ontario's auto sector faces immediate pressures as Stellantis recently announced moving 3,000 jobs from Brampton and General Motors ended electric delivery van production.
- At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Malaysia, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada and the U.S. were close to a deal before talks cut off on Thursday and he hasn't heard from Trump since.
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Ford refuses to apologize for anti-tariff ads that scuttled trade talks with US
After Ontario's anti-tariff TV ad blitz scuttled trade talks, Premier Doug Ford vowed on Monday he will "never apologize" for pushing back against hostile trade measures designed to poach jobs from his province.
Ontario’s leader Doug Ford refused to apologize for sponsoring an anti-arance television commercial that U.S. President Donald Trump used as an excuse to end high-risk business talks with Canada. “We have achieved our goal: to make sure the conversation starts with the American people and their elected officials, and what if it has started,” Ontario’s Prime Minister Doug Ford told the press in the provincial legislature in Toronto. “The best ann…
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The Hamilton SpectatorFord says he won’t apologize for anti-tariff ads that scuttled trade talks with U.S.
Carney said there were "very detailed, very specific, very comprehensive" negotiations about steel, aluminum and energy trade before everything changed on Thursday.
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