Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has reportedly apologized to President Donald Trump for Canada’s recent bad behavior.
Earlier this month, Ontario Premier Doug Ford posted to social media an advertisement that featured former U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaking negatively, but out of context, about tariffs in 1987.
The ad prompted criticism and pushback from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, which said in a statement that the ad misrepresented what Reagan had said and meant.
Listen to President Reagan’s unedited remarks here: https://t.co/1gQUcbR4eZ pic.twitter.com/iqmjSuypp0
— Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute (@RonaldReagan) October 24, 2025
The ad also caught the attention of President Donald Trump, who responded furiously by abruptly ending trade negotiations with Canada.
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “The ad was for $75,000,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts.”
“TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT,” he added.
Trump also told reporters that he had no further interest in speaking with Carney.
“I don’t want to meet with him,” he said on Monday. “I’m not going to be meeting with him for a long time.”
Days later, on Friday, the president revealed that Carney had finally apologized to him personally for the ad fiasco, though he stressed that he still didn’t intend to resume trade negotiations with Canada:
PRESIDENT Trump just now said that he is NOT resuming negotiations with Canada, even after Mark Carney APOLOGIZED for the anti tariff ad pic.twitter.com/ao5x53clKp
— Melissa (@MelissaLMRogers) October 31, 2025
After attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday, Carney himself confirmed to a reporter that he’d indeed apologized for the ad.
“I did apologize,” he said, according to NBC News, adding that the ad was “not something I would have done.”
In the ad, Reagan appeared to trash tariffs while delivering a radio address.
“When someone says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs,” he said in the ad.
“And sometimes for a short while it works—but only for a short time,” he added. “Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.”
According to Time magazine, Reagan delivered the radio address right before his “meeting with Japan’s then-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone over economic relations between the U.S. and Japan.”
“Reagan had imposed duties at the end of March 1987 on $300 million of Japanese products alleging that Japan had engaged in practices that violated a 1986 semiconductor trade agreement with the U.S,” the magazine notes.
In the radio speech, Reagan stressed the importance of free trade while simultaneously defending his own tariffs.
This whole situation comes about two weeks out from the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on Nov. 5 regarding Trump’s tariffs.
NEW: The Supreme Court has agreed to fast-track its review of President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs case, scheduling oral arguments for early November. The tariffs remain in effect pending the justices’ decision.
CNN: “You remember that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the… pic.twitter.com/11cdf9rw2k
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) September 9, 2025
“Oral arguments usually last 60 minutes, with 30 minutes for each side,” according to The Center Square. “In the tariff case, the high court expanded that to 80 minutes for the hearing set for Nov. 5.”
The president, meanwhile, has said that the case is so important that he may personally attend the hearing.
“We have a big case coming up in the Supreme Court, and I will tell you, that’s one of the most important cases in the history of our country,” he said from the Oval Office about a week earlier.
“If we don’t win that case, we will be a weakened, troubled, financial mess for many, many years to come. That’s why I think I’m going to go to the Supreme Court to watch,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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