""This is a kind of propaganda against US citizens," Bessent said to NBC. "It's psy-ops.""
""Why would the government of Ontario - I'm told that they have spent, or were planning to spend, up to $75 million on these ads to come across the US border," he added. "So what was the purpose of that other than to sway public opinion?""
""It's clearly damaged our relationship with the most populous province in Canada," he told Brennan."
Ontario ran a minute-long anti-tariff advertisement that used a voiceover of Ronald Reagan's 1987 Radio Address defending free and fair trade. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent labeled the ad "propaganda" and "psy-ops," questioned its purpose, and said it represented "interference in US sovereign matters." Bessent stated Ontario had spent or planned up to $75 million to air the ads across the US border and asked whether the goal was to sway public opinion. He said the ad had been taken down but had already damaged relations with Canada's most populous province amid paused trade talks and tariff threats.
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