Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed Saturday that he apologized to President Donald Trump over a controversial anti-tariff ad aired using former U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s speeches to criticize tariffs.
The ad infuriated Trump, derailing trade talks and triggering a new 10 percent increase in tariffs on Canadian exports to the U.S.
“I did apologize to the president,” Carney told reporters Saturday, following an Asia-Pacific summit in South Korea. The Canadian leader said he had privately apologized during a dinner Wednesday.
Carney’s remarks came a day after Trump told reporters that the Canadian prime minister had expressed his remorse. “I have a very good relationship [with Carney]. I like him a lot, but what they did was wrong. He was very nice. He apologized for what they did with the commercial,” Trump said.
