Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney waves subsequent to U.S. President Donald Trump on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 7, 2025.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday mentioned he was slapping an additional 10% tariff on imports from Canada in retaliation for what he says is a deceptive TV advert that includes former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
“Canada was caught, pink handed, placing up a fraudulent commercial in Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs,” Trump wrote in a put up on Reality Social.
“Due to their critical misrepresentation of the information, and hostile act, I’m rising the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they’re paying now,” he wrote.
Canada typically pays a 35% tariff on items offered within the U.S., with exceptions for sure merchandise coated underneath the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Settlement, and different particular product exceptions, resembling metal and aluminum, that are tariffed at 50%.
Trump on late Friday blasted the Ontario provincial authorities in Canada for ready till after the primary two video games of the World Sequence to pause the Reagan advert.
“They might have pulled it tonight,” Trump informed reporters on the White Home as he headed to fly to Asia.
“Properly, that is soiled play,” he mentioned. “However I can play dirtier than they will, you already know.”
Trump had cited the advert in his choice on Thursday evening to commerce negotiations with Canada.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Friday afternoon mentioned he would pause the advert on Monday in order that commerce talks may resume.
However Ford additionally mentioned, “I’ve directed my group to maintain placing our message in entrance of People over the weekend in order that we are able to air our business through the first two World Sequence video games.”
Trump mentioned Friday evening that he had heard that Ontario was pulling the advert.
However he additionally mentioned he didn’t know the federal government was leaving it on till Monday.
The advert was proven Friday evening throughout a broadcast to tens of millions of People of the primary sport of the World Sequence.
That sport was received 11-4 by Canada’s Toronto Blue Jays over the U.S.’s Los Angeles Dodgers.
Toronto is in Ontario, and is the house city of Ford.
Ford, in a tweet earlier Friday saying the advert pause, mentioned “Our intention was at all times to provoke a dialog in regards to the form of financial system that People wish to construct and the impression of tariffs on employees and companies.
“We have achieved our aim, having reached U.S. audiences on the highest ranges,” Ford mentioned, apparently referring to Trump.
“In talking with Prime Minister [Mark] Carney, Ontario will pause its U.S. promoting marketing campaign efficient Monday in order that commerce talks can resume,” he mentioned.
Trump halted commerce talks with Canada after claims by The Ronald Reagan Presidential Basis and Institute that the advert misrepresents Reagan’s radio deal with speech from April 25, 1987, and that his remarks have been edited with out permission.
The inspiration posted a YouTube video of the speech on its web site and urged individuals to look at it in its entirety.
Ford responded to that criticism earlier Friday by tweeting out a hyperlink to the identical video.
On it, Reagan discusses his latest imposition of latest tariffs “on some Japanese merchandise in response to Japan’s incapability to implement their commerce settlement with us on digital units referred to as semiconductors.”
That context is lacking from Ontario’s advert. However the advert precisely captures Reagan saying, “Over the long term, such commerce boundaries harm each American employee and shopper.”
The advert additionally has Reagan, from the identical speech, saying, “When somebody says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on overseas imports,’ it seems to be like they’re doing the patriotic factor by defending American merchandise and jobs. And generally, for a short time, it really works — however just for a short while.”
“Excessive tariffs inevitably result in retaliation by overseas international locations and the triggering of fierce commerce wars,” Reagan mentioned within the speech and within the advert.
Ford, who calls himself a “large Ronald Reagan fan,” first posted the advert on X on Oct. 16, days after saying that Ontario’s authorities would spend $75 million to run the advert in the US.
“We’ll repeat that message to each Republican district there may be, proper throughout the complete nation,” mentioned Ford.
Trump raged in regards to the advert in a Reality Social put up on Friday morning.
“CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!! They fraudulently took a giant purchase advert saying that Ronald Reagan didn’t like Tariffs, when truly he LOVED TARIFFS FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS NATIONAL SECURITY,” Trump wrote.
“Canada is making an attempt to illegally affect the US Supreme Courtroom in probably the most necessary rulings within the historical past of our Nation. Canada has lengthy cheated on Tariffs, charging our farmers as a lot as 400%. Now they, and different international locations, cannot benefit from the U.S. any longer. Thanks to the Ronald Reagan Basis for exposing this FRAUD.”
The Supreme Courtroom in early November is ready to listen to oral arguments in a case that can decide if Trump had energy underneath the legislation to impose sweeping tariffs in opposition to scores of nations, together with Canada, with out the consent of Congress.
