Ontario’s Ford Says He’s Not Sorry for Ad That Angered Trump (2)

The leader of Ontario declined to apologize for sponsoring an anti-tariff television commercial that US President Donald Trump used as a reason to terminate high-stakes trade talks with Canada.

“We have achieved our goal, to make sure that conversation starts with the American people, and with their elected officials, and my goodness, it’s started all right,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters at the province’s legislature in Toronto. “The best ad that ever ran, I’ll tell you.”

His government ran an advertisement on US networks quoting excerpts from a 1987 radio address in which former President Ronald Reagan argued against ...