Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday that he has apologized to U.S. President Donald Trump for the anti-tariff television ad which prompted the U.S. leader to inflict additional tariffs on the country and cut off negotiations.

Carney told reporters attending a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Gyeongju, South Korea, that he had offered Trump his apologies during a dinner earlier this week, where he said he spoke privately to the president and had a “very nice conversation” with him.

“The president was offended by the act, or by the ad, rather,” Carney said on Saturday. “It’s not something I would have done—which is to put in place that advertisement—and so I apologized to him.”

The ad, which featured former president Ronald Reagan delivering an anti-

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