Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the advertisement campaign criticising US tariffs would pause on Monday "so that trade talks can resume" between the two countries.

The advertisements were released last week by the government of Canada's Ontario province and were running in the US.

On Friday, US President Donald Trump said he was ending trade talks with Canada in response.

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"Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and businesses," Ford said on Friday on X.

"We've achieved our goal, having reached US audiences at the highest levels. I've directed my team to keep putting our message in front of Americans over the weekend so that we can air our commercia

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