U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized for the Ontario government ad that used former president Ronald Reagan’s own words to spread an anti-tariff message to an American audience.

“I have a very good relationship [with Carney]. I like him a lot, but what they did was wrong. He was very nice. He apologized for what they did with the commercial,” Trump said on Friday in a scrum with reporters on Air Force One.

“It was a false commercial. It was the exact opposite — Ronald Reagan loved tariffs.”

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The Prime Minister's Office has not confirmed whether Carney apologized.

On Oct. 14, the Ontario government launched th

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