United States President Donald Trump has said the US and Canada will not restart trade talks on account of an Ontario political advertisement using former President Ronald Reagan saying tariffs spell disaster.

Trump said on Friday that even though Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had apologised to him for the advertisement, the two countries would not be restarting trade talks.

“I like him a lot, but what they did was wrong,” he said. “He apologised for what they did with the commercial because it was a false commercial.”

Carney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump last week called off negotiations over the advertisement aired by the Canadian province of Ontario, adding he was increasing tariffs on Canada by an additional 10 percent .

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