Why the US-Canada relationship is on shaky ground

为什么美加关系基础不稳

The Global Story

2025-10-29

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After months of tense negotiations, President Trump has announced that he has terminated trade talks with Canada. The reason: a new Canadian TV commercial featuring an anti-tariff message from an old Ronald Reagan speech. The ad played during a World Series game and ran on various US cable channels, angering President Trump. The ad is just the latest skirmish between the US and its neighbour to the north. We speak to the BBC’s senior Canada reporter, Nadine Yousif, about how we got here – and what the future has in store for the relationship between the two countries. Producers: Valerio Esposito and Xandra Ellin Executive Producers: Annie Brown and James Shield Senior News Editor: China Collins Mix: Travis Evans Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
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  • There's a TV ad here in the US that's been making a lot of headlines.

  • It played the other day during the World Series.

  • It's a commercial that cycles through images of American life.

  • When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,

  • it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs.

  • Factories, farmland, families just going about their lives.

  • And sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time.

  • And over these images, you hear the words of the popular former Republican president, Ronald Reagan.

  • Throughout the world,

  • there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition.

  • America's jobs and growth are at stake.

  • But it was paid for by the government of Ontario, Canada.

  • They wrote, they did a crooked ad.

  • This all got under the president's skin.

  • Well, that's dirty playing.

  • But I can play dirtier than they can, you know?

  • Trump called the ad fake.

  • The Reagan Foundation said it misrepresents the former president's words.

  • But more importantly, it's reignited a trade feud between the two countries.

  • Canada is the United States' second largest trading partner,