U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized for an anti-tariff commercial that led the president to cut off trade talks earlier this month.

“He was very nice. He apologized for what they did with the commercial,” said Trump aboard Air Force One.

When was asked if he was planning to restart trade negotiations with Canada, the president responded: “No, but I have a very good relationship. I like him a lot, but you know, what they did was wrong.”

The ad featured former U.S. president Ronald Reagan saying tariffs “hurt every American” in a 1987 radio address.

Ontario announced its plan to run the ad on Oct. 14.

“We’re going to launch a $75-million ad and we’re going to repeat that message at every Republican district there is,” he said at the time.

Ten days later, Trump announced he’d end trade negotiations with Canada after Ford said the ad would run on U.S. networks throughout the Oct. 25-26 weekend that Games 1 and 2 of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers was played.

Trump subsequently said he would slap an additional 10 per cent tariff on Canada.

“Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now.”