“We’re just going to speak the truth. You know, that ad, it’s not a nasty ad. It’s actually just very factual," said Ontario Premier Doug Ford of the ad featuring late U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Photo by MIKE SARGENT/AFP/Getty Images/Postmedia files

Ontario plans to launch a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign against United States tariffs , targeted at Republican-held districts and using the words of late President Ronald Reagan .

The television spot is almost entirely made up of excerpts from an address Reagan gave in 1987 in which he defended the principles of free trade, and slammed tariffs as a policy that drives up prices and hurts US workers.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford played the ad before a lunchtime speech in Toronto on Tuesday.

“We’re going to launch a $75 m

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