The mayor of Brampton, one of Canada's largest cities in the province of Ontario, Patrick Brown, has defended a commercial that led President Donald Trump to impose 10 percent tariffs on Canadian goods.

As Ukrinform reports with reference to The Hill, he said this on Sunday in an interview with CBC.

A television ad in Ontario used a speech by former US President Ronald Reagan, who opposed tariffs in international relations, to criticize Trump's tariff policies.

I support the approach of the Premier of Ontario (Doug Ford – ed.), - Brown said. - Sometimes you have to throw a stone in the pond to get a splash.

According to the mayor, the video had a wide resonance. And the words are true – despite the fact that they try to say and twist everything as if it were just part of the speech, - he noted. - Ronald Reagan saw tariffs as taxes that would cost America dearly in the long run.

As Ukrinform reported, Trump last week suspended trade talks with Canada after the Ontario government launched an ad with Reagan's words.

On Saturday, the White House announced that it had imposed 10 percent tariffs on Canada after an ad that he called fake aired during the baseball World Series.