The Ontario government’s representative in Washington says the infamous ad that upset U.S. President Donald Trump and ostensibly pushed him to halt trade talks with Canada hasn’t prevented him from having productive meetings.

David Paterson told CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton that the Ontario government-backed advertisement — featuring clips of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs — has hardly come up in recent meetings he’s had with members of Congress.

Ontario Treasury Board President Caroline Mulroney was in Washington this week to take part in meetings with Paterson. The Ontario cabinet minister is the daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney who, alongside Reagan, laid the seeds of the original North American free trad

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