{"id":65351,"date":"2025-10-14T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/14\/ontario-targets-gop-with-anti-tariff-ad-using-old-reagan-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:18:25","slug":"ontario-targets-gop-with-anti-tariff-ad-using-old-reagan-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/14\/ontario-targets-gop-with-anti-tariff-ad-using-old-reagan-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario targets GOP with anti-tariff ad using old Reagan speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<br \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tariffs, trade tensions and steel\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IWF0HXokAZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Ontario plans<\/p>\n<p>                         to launch a multimillion-dollar <\/p>\n<p>                        advertising campaign<\/p>\n<p>                         against <\/p>\n<p>                        United States tariffs<\/p>\n<p>                        , targeted at Republican-held districts and using the words of late President <\/p>\n<p>                        Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>                        . <\/p>\n<p> 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. <\/p>\n<p> Ontario Premier <\/p>\n<p>                        Doug Ford<\/p>\n<p>                         played the ad before a lunchtime speech in Toronto on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe\u2019re going to launch a $75 million ad and we\u2019re going to repeat that message at every Republican district there is,\u201d said Ford, who has governed Canada\u2019s most populous province since 2018. That\u2019s equivalent to about US$53 million. <\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/22097836\/embed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe\u2019re just going to speak the truth. You know, that ad, it\u2019s not a nasty ad. It\u2019s actually just very factual.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Ontario is the heart of Canada\u2019s steel and automotive industries and has been hurt badly by the Trump administration\u2019s tariffs on both sectors. The unemployment rate in the province rose to 7.9 per cent in September \u2014 it was about seven per cent a year earlier \u2014 and it\u2019s even higher in some cities where auto factories are large employers, such as Windsor and Oshawa. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Trump&#8217;s hands shouldn&#8217;t be on Canadian critical minerals<\/li>\n<li>William Watson: Measuring the micro-hurt from Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Bloomberg.com <\/p>\n\n<br \/>Ontario targets GOP with anti-tariff ad using old Reagan speech<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-14 20:18:25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 . 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