"I did apologise to the president. The president was offended, the prime minister said of the advertisement, which was produced by the Canadian province of Ontario. I'm the one who's responsible, in my role as prime minister, for our relationship with the president of the United States, and the federal government is responsible for the foreign relationship with the US government, Carney added. So, things happen we take the good with the bad and I apologised."
"Ontario's commercial, which featured a 1980s speech by former US President Ronald Reagan in which Reagan said tariffs can lead to fierce trade wars and unemployment, worsened that already tense situation. The Trump administration suspended trade talks with Canada over the advertisement, which Washington has claimed misrepresented Reagan's views and sought to unfairly influence a looming US Supreme Court decision on Trump's tariff policy."
Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized to President Donald Trump for an Ontario-produced anti-tariff advertisement that offended the president and prompted Washington to suspend trade talks. The commercial used a 1980s Ronald Reagan speech warning that tariffs can trigger fierce trade wars and unemployment. The Trump administration said the ad misrepresented Reagan's views and attempted to influence a pending US Supreme Court decision on tariff policy. The US also imposed steep duties earlier and announced an additional 10 percent levy after the ad continued airing in the United States. Despite Carney's apology, President Trump said he did not plan to resume trade negotiations.
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