By Maria Cheng

OTTAWA (Reuters) -The premier of Canada’s most populous province has again complicated the country’s delicate trade negotiations with the U.S., this time with a political ad targeting Americans that has drawn the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The ad, commissioned by Doug Ford, Ontario’s outspoken Conservative premier who is sometimes compared to Trump, uses a snippet of Republican icon and former President Ronald Reagan saying that tariffs cause trade wars and economic disaster.

In a series of posts on Truth Social late on Thursday, Trump called the ad fraudulent, declaring that “ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney, unlike Ford, has sought to lower the temperature with Trump since taking office in March and had hope

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