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Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to journalists at a provincial and territorial leaders meeting in Ottawa in Jan., 2025. Ontario released an anti-tariff ad campaign which used archival footage of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs.

The Cambridge dictionary defines “pretext” as “a pretended reason for doing something that is used to hide the real reason.”

According to dictionary.com, it is “something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse.” According to Merriam-Webster, it’s “a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs.” Per the Oxford Learner’s dictionary, a pretext is “a false reason that you give for doing something, usually something bad, in ord

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