Canada, Reagan and Donald Trump
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Ronald Reagan, tariffs and 1987 speech
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The 1987 radio address by the former U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the centre of a new U.S.-Canada row was a defence of free but fair trade in which he explained his decision to put duties on Japanese goods in a trade dispute.
Trump abruptly terminated talks after Ontario ran an ad campaign using videos of President Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs.
In January 1989, I was too busy playing soccer in the schoolyard. But something astonishing happened. Ronald Reagan gave his farewell address from the White House, and nobody wanted him to go. Most politicians don’t leave; they’re kicked out.