An unrepentant Premier Doug Ford has no regrets about Ontario’s anti-tariff advertising blitz that derailed trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump who accused Canada of playing “dirty pool” and iced Prime Minister Mark Carney’s hopes of meeting anytime soon to resolve the latest rupture.

Trump repeated his accusation that the Ontario ad distorted Ronald Reagan’s tariff views and aimed to influence a Nov. 5 U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the validity of tariffs, but Ford defiantly told reporters, “We generated a conversation that wasn’t happening in the U.S.”

“Now, every single local media, every large media, medium-sized media in the U.S., is talking about it,” Ford said at Queen’s Park. “And the message is very clear: protectionism does not work,” said the premier, who lat

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