Carney says he apologized to Trump over tariff advertisement

Brian Platt, Bloomberg News on Nov 1, 2025

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed that he apologized to U.S. President Donald Trump over a television ad that opposed tariffs, while saying he stands ready to negotiate a better trade deal with his southern neighbor.

“I did apologize to the president,” Carney told reporters on Saturday in Gyeongju, South Korea, where he was attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

Carney said he viewed the ad before it was aired, and asked Ontario Premier Doug Ford not to go ahead with it. “It’s not something I would have done,” Carney said, referring to the ad.

“I’m the one who is responsible in my role as prime minister for the relationship with the president of the United States,” he added. “So things happen. We take the good with the bad, and I apologized.”

Trump said earlier he received an apology from Carney, but suggested that trade talks between the two countries won’t restart.

Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One whether negotiations between the White House and Carney’s government would resume, Trump said: “No, but I have a very good relationship. I like him a lot, but you know, what they did was wrong. He was very nice. He apologized for what they did with the commercial.”

Earlier Friday, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the goal is for the U.S. and Canada to return to the table after talks broke off last week, and for the countries to cooperate more closely on oil, gas and critical minerals.

There has been friction in the talks between Canada and the U.S. “for some good reasons,” Wright told reporters at the Group of Seven energy and environment ministers’ meeting in Toronto on Friday.

Trump called off the negotiations last week after the province of Ontario aired an anti-tariff advertisement in the U.S. that drew from a 1987 radio address by former President Ronald Reagan. Trump also threatened an additional 10% tariff on Canada.

Before the breakdown, Carney said the two countries had been progressing on a deal on steel and aluminum sectoral tariffs, as well as energy. Carney had pitched Trump on reviving the Keystone XL pipeline project.

“Unfortunately we’ve had some bumps on the road,” Wright said. “I would say the goal is to bring those back together and I think to see cooperation between the United States and Canada across critical minerals, across oil and gas.”

Trump has also said recently that he’s satisfied with the current trade arrangement between the U.S. and Canada, which includes U.S. import taxes on autos, lumber, steel and aluminum, along with a 35% tariff on other goods not shipped under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump signed during his first term.

“After all the noise of this week, Canada still has the best trade deal of any country with the U.S.,” Carney said on Saturday. “And we stand ready to negotiate an even better one for both countries.”