This is CBS. I'm The World. I'm John Batchel.

joined by my good colleague, Conrad Black, distinguished biographer and columnist for the National

Post about Canada, a subject I've grown increasingly keen on because it's a nation that

is very friendly to me, always have been whenever I've been in Canada crossing a river. Also, it's a nation that is very friendly to me, always have been whenever I've been in Canada, crossing a river.

Also, it's a fascination for the success of the Western Hemisphere.

The new Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, have been involved

what you say in a misunderstanding these last weeks that initially

was understood to be a driver for the break-in conversation between the U.S. and Canada about tariffs,

about trade. It now emerges, if I read Conrad Black's correct column, new column correctly, that the

misunderstanding was not entirely transparent.

I want to make this very quick, Conrad.

Doug Ford put an ad up that showed Mr. Reagan saying that he was against tariffs.

It was out of time, out of place, long time ago. Mr. Carney represented that he was against tariffs. It was out of time, out of place, long time ago.

Mr. Carney represented that he didn't know it was happening beforehand and has apologized

to Mr. Trump, who was offended by the ad. But there's needs to be another detail here.

To your column, it looks that Mr. Carney was informed of the ad before it went up.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

And you put your finger on the problem.

When the ad went out coming from the province of Ontario, President Trump's

reaction was a good-humored one, and the position that the Prime Minister of this country,

Mark Carney, took, was that he didn't know anything about it. Then Doug Ford said that

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