4 hours ago
2
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said precocious Thursday that helium was ending "all commercialized negotiations" with Canada due to the fact that of a tv advertisement opposing U.S. tariffs that helium said misstated the facts and called "egregious behavior" aimed astatine influencing U.S. tribunal decisions.
The station connected Trump's societal media tract came aft Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said helium aims to treble his country's exports to countries extracurricular the U.S. due to the fact that of the menace posed by Trump's tariffs. Trump's telephone for an abrupt extremity to negotiations could further inflame commercialized tensions that already person been gathering betwixt the 2 neighboring countries for months.
Trump posted, "The Ronald Reagan Foundation has conscionable announced that Canada has fraudulently utilized an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively astir Tariffs."
"The advertisement was for $75,000. They lone did this to interfere with the determination of the U.S. Supreme Court, and different courts," Trump wrote connected his societal media site. "TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based connected their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED."
Carney's bureau didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment. The premier curate was acceptable to permission Friday greeting for a acme successful Asia, portion Trump is acceptable to bash the aforesaid Friday evening.
Earlier Thursday night, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute posted connected X that an advertisement created by the authorities of Ontario "misrepresents the 'Presidential Radio Address to the Nation connected Free and Fair Trade' dated April 25, 1987." It added that Ontario did not person instauration support "to usage and edit the remarks."
The instauration said it is "reviewing ineligible options successful this matter" and invited the nationalist to ticker the unedited video of Reagan's address.
Carney met with Trump earlier this period to effort to easiness commercialized tensions, arsenic the 2 countries and Mexico hole for a reappraisal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement - a commercialized woody Trump negotiated successful his archetypal term, but has since soured on.
More than three-quarters of Canadian exports spell to the U.S., and astir $3.6 cardinal Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worthy of goods and services transverse the borderline daily.
Trump said earlier this week that helium had seen the advertisement connected tv and said that it showed that his tariffs were having an impact.
"I saw an advertisement past nighttime from Canada. If I was Canada, I'd instrumentality that aforesaid advertisement also," helium said then.
In his ain station connected X past week, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, posted a nexus to the advertisement and the message: "It's official: Ontario's caller advertizing run successful the U.S. has launched."
He continued, "Using each instrumentality we have, we'll ne'er halt making the lawsuit against American tariffs connected Canada. The mode to prosperity is by moving together."
A spokesperson for Ford didn't instantly respond to a petition for remark Thursday night. But Ford antecedently got Trump's attraction with an energy surcharge to U.S. states. Trump responded by doubling alloy and aluminum tariffs.
The president has moved to enforce steep U.S. tariffs connected galore goods from Canada. In April, Canada's authorities imposed retaliatory levies connected definite U.S. goods -- but it carved retired exemptions for immoderate automakers to bring circumstantial numbers of vehicles into the country, known arsenic remission quotas.
Trump's tariffs person particularly wounded Canada's car sector, overmuch of which is based successful Ontario. This month, Stellantis said it would determination a accumulation enactment from Ontario to Illinois
Associated Press Writer Rob Gillies successful Toronto, Ontario, contributed to this report.
Copyright © 2025 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
