Trump says all trade talks with Canada ‘terminated’ over anti-tariffs TV ad
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US President Donald Trump said late on Thursday that he was ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad opposing US tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called “egregious” behaviour aimed at influencing US court decisions.
The post on Trump’s social media site came after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he aimed to double his country’s exports to countries outside the US because of the threat posed by Trump’s tariffs.
Trump’s call for an abrupt end to negotiations could further inflame trade tensions that already have been building between the two neighbouring countries for months. Trump has also been threatening Canada’s sovereignty, most offensively by claiming Canada could be “the 51st state”.
Trump posted: “The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs.
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“The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts,” Trump wrote on his social media site.