Ontario Targets GOP With Anti-Tariff Ad Using Reagan Speech
US President Ronald Reagan gestures as he leaves the White House for a weekend at Camp David in 1987.
Photographer: Mike Sargent/AFP/Getty ImagesOntario plans to launch a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign against US tariffs, targeted at Republican-held districts and using the words of late President Ronald Reagan.
The television spot is comprised of excerpts from an address Reagan gave in 1987 in which he defended the principles of free trade and slammed tariffs as an outdated idea that stifles innovation, drives up prices and hurts US workers.