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The president of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced in the last hours of this Thursday the end of all commercial negotiations with Canada on the occasion of an ad featuring images of former President Ronald Reagan contrary to the imposition of tariffs published by the government of the province of Ontario, although the Republican magnate has attributed it to the Canadian Executive.
“Canada fraudulently used a fake ad in which Ronald Reagan spoke negatively about tariffs“, he denounced in a publication on his social network, Truth Social, in which he states that “they did it only to interfere in the decision of the United States Supreme Court and other courts.”
The propaganda piece, which Trump has claimed cost “75 million dollars” (64.6 million euros), has constituted for the American president “atrocious behavior” and sufficient reason to “terminate all trade negotiations with Canada.”
The Republican leader, who has stressed that “tariffs are very important for the national security and the economy of the United States”, has thus alluded to the statement published by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institutein which this conservative organization denounces that the aforementioned advertisement “distorts the presidential radio speech” on free trade on April 25, 1987.
The Foundation, which has spread the text through the social network X, has criticized that “the Government of Ontario did not request or receive permission to use or edit the comments” and has stated that “it is evaluating its legal options.”
The announcement, released by the Premier of Ontario, Doug Fordlast October 16, shows Canadian workers, families and landscapes with a voice-over critical of the tariffs that, at the end of the piece, is revealed to be Reagan’s.
Ad reordering
Although the sentences spoken in the Ontario advertising spot often follow a different order than that in which Reagan spoke them in 1987 – due to a conflict with Japan over tariffs on semiconductors – the recomposition of the advertisement does not cut any sentence from the originalbut is limited to the reordering of some segments and subordinate clauses, as has been possible to compare Europa Press from the two files.
“High tariffs inevitably lead to reprisals by foreign countries and the unleashing of fierce trade wars,” says Reagan in both audios, which is followed by the part in the Ontario announcement, also included in the original, “and then the worst happens: markets contract and collapse, companies and industries close and millions of people lose their jobs,” already reflected in both audios.
In between, in the 1987 speech the former president can be heard saying: “The result is ever higher tariffs, ever higher trade barriers, and ever less competition. Because of artificially high prices that subsidize inefficiency and mismanagement, people stop buying“.
The announcement, which includes more instances similar to the one reflected here, was published after the company Stellantis announced the transfer of part of its production from Canada to the United States, in a movement that the Government of Canada and the country’s main union, Unifor, attributed to Trump’s tariff policy.
Just a week before, Trump himself and the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carneytheir good harmony stood out in Washington. “We are working on formulas to solve it and I think we will achieve it,” the White House tenant stated then.