OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump said that Prime Minister Mark Carney has “apologized” for the Ontario government’s anti-tariff television ad featuring Ronald Reagan that reportedly derailed trade talks between both countries.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Friday as he was heading back to the U.S., Trump was asked if he was going to resume negotiations with Canada and said “no.” The president however sung Carney’s praises, saying that they have a “very good relationship.”

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“I like him a lot but what they did was wrong,” said Trump of Ontario’s commercial.

“(Carney) was very nice and he apologized for what they did with the commercial because it was a false commercial. It was the exact opposite: Ronald Reagan loved tariffs, and they tried to make it loo

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