Although U.S. President Donald Trump has shredded Canada-U.S. trade talks over an Ontario government anti-tariff advertisement, Canadian politicians all the way from the municipal to the federal level are backing Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s approach and won’t say the ad was a mistake.
“I support the premier’s approach,” Brampton, Ont., Mayor Patrick Brown said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live on Sunday. “Sometimes you need to throw a rock in a pond to get a splash. He’s got a reaction. It’s got a lot of coverage.”
“I’m glad our premier had the courage to call out the U.S. president on inconsistencies,” Brown told host Rosemary Barton.
Ontario’s advertisement uses the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan's own words to send an anti-tariff message to American audiences.
It appears to have struck a nerve with U.S. President Donald Trump, who first cut off trade negotiations with Canada on Thursday evening over the advertisement and then promised to increase “the Tariff on Canada” by 10 per cent on Saturday afternoon.
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