US EditionFord says Carney called from Asia and asked him to stop running ad that angered Trump
Ontario Premier Doug Ford paused a $75 million anti-tariff ad after multiple calls from Prime Minister Mark Carney, as the campaign is linked to the end of U.S. trade talks.
- During an official visit to Asia, Prime Minister Mark Carney called Doug Ford, Ontario Premier, a couple of times to ask him to pull an ad campaign, Ford said Monday.
- The ad campaign featured Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs, angering U.S. President Donald Trump who cut off trade talks last month and threatened a 10 per cent tariff increase.
- Ford said Monday that he resisted immediately pulling the ads and that they were paused on Monday, stating `He called me from Asia a couple of times and said, 'Pull the ad,' and I said I wasn't going to do it until we're going to pause the ad on Monday and that's exactly what we did`.
- Trump cut off trade talks last month blaming the TV spots, and Ford agreed to pull the ads but ran them through World Series games despite White House criticism.
- Ford acknowledged differing memories of the call, saying he had a different recollection of the conversation, while Carney said Trump was `offended` and that he apologized to the president.
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Ontario Premier Ford Says Carney Asked Him to Pull Controversial Ad ‘a Couple Times’
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney phoned him several times during his trip to Asia, asking Ford to remove an anti-tariff advertisement that angered U.S. President Donald Trump. “He called me from Asia a couple times and said, ‘pull the ad,’ and I said I wasn’t going to do it until we’re going to pause the ad on Monday [Oct. 27]. And that’s exactly what we did,” Ford told reporters in Queen’s Park on Nov. 3. The Ontario go…
Prime Minister Mark Carney called Doug Ford "on several occasions" to ask him to withdraw his tariff advertisements.
Ford says Carney called from Asia and asked him to stop running ad that angered Trump
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney asked him several times to pull an-tariff ad that angered U.S. President Donald Trump after it started running, though he has “a different recollection” from the prime minister of the conversation they had before it ran.
Prime Minister Mark Carney called Doug Ford "on several occasions" from Asia to ask him to withdraw an advertising campaign accused of ending trade negotiations with the United States, said Ontario's Prime Minister on Monday.
TORONTO — Prime Minister Mark Carney called Doug Ford "on several occasions" from Asia to ask him to withdraw an advertising campaign accused of ending trade negotiations with the United States, said Ontario Prime Minister on Monday. Mr. Carney said this weekend that he had told the Prime Minister of Ontario that he did not think that the province should broadcast the advertising that presented excerpts from former U.S. President Ronald Reagan s…
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