Has business tuned out Trump’s temper tantrums?

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MONTREAL — Like exhausted parents, Canada’s business community seems to be increasingly tuning out the temper tantrums coming from downstairs.

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On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was halting trade talks with Canada over an anti-tariff ad campaign run by the Ontario government.

“Canada cheated and got caught!!!” Trump wrote in all caps on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday morning.

He claimed the ads, which play clips of former president Ronald Reagan warning about the risks of protectionism, are “trying to illegally influence” the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of hearings on the president’s sweeping tariffs.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday afternoon he would pause the ad campaign, but only after they run during the first two games of the World Series, reaching a massive American audience.