Premier Doug Ford says U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra should apologize to Ontario's trade representative over a reported expletive-laden tirade.
The ad campaign had an effect so it’s reasonable to pause it for now depending how negotiations go.
Doug Ford and Ontario are not alone. BC and Manitoba’s Premiers are publicly supporting this ad campaign. Here’s a funny video from Manitoba’s Premier Wab Kinew about it:
Sen. Tim Kaine, one of the Democratic co-sponsors of the Canada tariff resolution, said Tuesday that the president’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was not appropriate. The administration initially argued that fentanyl flowing from Canada into the US was the inciting emergency, and the tariffs were increased last week after the Ontario Premier ran an anti-tariff advertisement invoking quotes from former President Ronald Reagan.
“It is ridiculous to say that fentanyl is an emergency with respect to Canada, and it’s a pretext that’s just used being used to pour more and more tariffs onto Canada,” said Kaine. “And why don’t we pour gasoline on the fire? If they run an ad we don’t like, we’ll increase the tariffs by 10%.”
Says the guy who spent so much on ads targeting tariffs only to cancel them shortly…
The ad campaign had an effect so it’s reasonable to pause it for now depending how negotiations go.
Doug Ford and Ontario are not alone. BC and Manitoba’s Premiers are publicly supporting this ad campaign. Here’s a funny video from Manitoba’s Premier Wab Kinew about it:
https://xcancel.com/WabKinew/status/1981753253055361219
There is also an upcoming digital ad campaign soon to be launched by BC focused on lumber tariffs:
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/24/bc-digital-campaign-american-audience/
the “negotiations” were not really going anywhere and are now completetly stopped
how does your comment make any sense?
Time will tell. The ad campaign and Trump’s reaction to it may play a role in the start of a shift on Republican unity in the States.
From https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/politics/canada-tariffs-senate-vote-trump where some Republican Senators voted with Democrats to end tariffs on Canada: