Posted on 10/24/2025 4:17:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump ended all trade talks with Canada on Thursday
The liberal Canadian premier who launched a $75 million anti-tariff ad campaign in the United States featuring former President Ronald Reagan will yank the effort after pressure from President Donald Trump.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday afternoon that he would pause the ad campaign put out by his administration targeting Americans starting on Monday. That announcement came after Trump on Thursday said he had ended all trade talks with Canada over the ad, calling it an effort to influence American politics.
“Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and businesses,” Ford posted on X. “We’ve achieved our goal, having reached U.S. audiences at the highest levels. I’ve directed my team to keep putting our message in front of Americans over the weekend so that we can air our commercial during the first two World Series games.”
Ford said he would “pause [the] U.S. advertising campaign effective Monday so that trade talks can resume” after speaking with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and businesses. We’ve achieved our goal, having reached U.S. audiences at the highest levels. I’ve directed my team to keep putting our…
— Doug Ford (@fordnation) October 24, 2025
Ontario’s ad featured clips from an April 25, 1987, radio address Reagan gave on free and fair trade. The ad campaign aired in the United States during a playoff baseball game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners. Game 1 of the World Series takes place Friday night, featuring the Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Not good enough. Fire the premier.
This Ford punk was running ads during the 2024 election cycle about how Ontario was our friend and trading partner.
A child just wasted $75 million
It's who they are.
It's what they do.
Is Ontario Premier Doug Ford really stupid?
Yup.
Only a fool would try a dirty trick like that on Trump.
Guaranteed he’d hit back quick with force.
burn York down to the ground
I like Canadians but we don’t need them and won’t respond well to high school peer pressure tactics or mind games. Those behaviors are what we voted out last year. Get with it. Annoy us with that nonsense and we’re going to walk away and leave you to freeze. If one of your provinces want to talk to us on their own like adults, we’ll listen.
I still don’t understand that entire kerfluffle, but
it’s all over now.
It was a stupid move by Ontario.
Everybody loved Doug Ford’s brother Rob Ford when he was Mayor of Toronto a decade ago.
Of course Rob ‘governed under the influence’ one might say.
BS. I just saw it, right before NBC Evening news, who then reported that “the ad had been pulled”. So typical
Has anybody ever seen Tim Watz and Doug Ford in the same room at the same time?
No logic involved in this entire discussion, if Reagan was right about tariffs then why do we have them? That’s what some Ontario folks should ask Ford but the problem is, he’s no liberal as implied here, he’s the more conservative of the three political options in Ontario.
Canadians in general don’t seem to have clued in yet that the issues are about our tariffs, not your tariffs which would go away if ours went away. I am not sure why Carney doesn’t just get on with it and advance the discussion down that road, you almost get the impression he likes having Trump as a symbolic opponent rather than doing the right thing and bringing this stupid tempest in a teapot to its logical conclusion (a tariff free trading environment) — we signed a free trade agreement in 1988 and yet these specific sector tariffs were allowed to continue. It only became a big issue in Trump’s first term, but if we’re going to have free trade then let’s free up all trade and drop all tariffs.
This is my position and also the position of the non-influential PPC in Canadian politics but it has not really gained any traction because old school politicians don’t agree and are beholden to special interest groups.
At the same time I wouldn’t overestimate the impacts of sector tariffs on either country’s economy. This is more of an irritant than a huge systemic problem. And that’s why nothing much has been done about it.
Go Dodgers!
Why the HELL does he think he needs to instruct us on anything!!....Canada iirc had tariffs in Americans long ago.
Exile him to Kaspuskasing.
That didn’t work out so well last time it was done.
Pronto.
True.
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