President Donald Trump has called Canada “all trade negotiations” with Canada and “judicial conduct” affecting US court decisions.
In a post on Trump’s social media site, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the country aims to double its exports to countries outside the country due to the threat posed by Trump’s tariffs. Trump’s call for negotiations for a sharp end could further exacerbate trade tensions that have been building between the two neighboring countries for months.
Trump said, “The Ronald Reagan Foundation, a fake Ronald Reagan in Canada, has revealed that it used a fake ad from an ad talking negatively about tariffs.”
“The announcement was $75,000. They only interfered with the decision of the US Supreme Court and other courts,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “Tariffs are critical to national security and the economy, based on the racial behavior of the United States, and all trade negotiations with Canada are terminated.”
Carney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The prime minister left for a summit in Asia on Friday morning, which Trump will hold on the same Thursday.
Trump, a Republican, was still there Friday morning, angrily shouting, “Canada cheated and got caught!!!” In the tariff advertisement.
“The United States is rich, strong, and nationally safe again, at all costs!” Haqikat wrote in a separate post on his Social Account. “The most important case is in the Supreme Court of the United States. God save America !!!”
Earlier Thursday night, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute X, an advertisement created by the “Action” government “Send to Breathe Radio” Breathe Radio Breathe Radio “and is dated April 25, 1987.” It added that Ontario did not receive Foundation permission to “use and edit the speech.”
The foundation said it was “considering legal options in this matter” and invited the public to watch a free video of Reagan’s address.
As for the Supreme Court, Trump is referring to a case scheduled for early November considering the legality of his fair trade tariffs. Two lower courts ruled that Trump could not unilaterally impose broad tariffs under the emergency powers law. His administration said otherwise that imports could be regulated and contained tariff policies.
Carney met with Trump earlier this month to try to ease trade tensions, as the two countries and Mexico prepare to meet on a trade deal in its first term, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, but have so far held trade.
More than three-quarters of Canadian exports go to the United States, and nearly $3.6 billion Canadian ($2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border.
Trump said he saw the ad on TV earlier this week and said his tariffs had an effect.
“I saw an ad last night from Canada. If I were Canadian, I’d take the same ad,” he said.
Last week in his position, ONTARIO Premier Doug Ford sent an advertisement and a message: “It’s official: Ontario has launched a new advertising campaign in the United States.”
He continued: “Using every means at our disposal, we will never stop challenging American tariffs in Canada. The way to prosperity is to work together.”
A spokesman for Ford did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. But Ford has previously drawn Trump’s attention with electricity payments to US states. Trump responded by doubling steel and aluminum tariffs.
The president has moved to impose steep US tariffs on many goods from Canada. In April, the Canadian government imposed retaliators on certain U.S. goods — but it waived the freedom for some cars to bring certain numbers into the country, known as remission quotas.
Trump’s tariffs are particularly damaging to Canada’s auto sector, most of which is based in Ontario. This month, Stellantis said it will cross a production line from Ontario to Illinois
Associated Press Writers Seung Min Kim in Toronto, Ontario and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.
– Weissert, Associated Press