Ontario Premier Doug Ford said U.S. President Donald Trump respects strength and so he won’t 'roll over' for a trade deal. Photo by Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

Ontario Premier Doug Ford declined to apologize for sponsoring an anti-tariff television commercial that U.S. 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,” 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 U.S. networks quoting excerpts from a 1987 radio address in which former U.S. president Ronald Reagan argued a

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