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MARK CARNEY has grounded DOUG FORD’s jet-setting dreams — testing their political bromance ahead of summer byelections and a simmering trade war.

It comes as the pair have been singing kumbaya and putting up a united front against tariff-happy neighbours to the south — the Premier regularly plays bad cop to Carney’s good cop, and even deferred to the Prime Minister to lead the way on the latest tariff threats from DONALD TRUMP. It was almost if that tiff over the RONALD REAGAN ad became a thing of the past.

But a bump in the honeymoon came on Friday, when the feds dropped the hammer on Ford’s high-flying dream to bring jets to Toronto’s Billy Bishop island airport. After a nearly two-month consultation that pulled in a staggering 87,000-plus responses, Ottawa is officially hitting the breaks on any expansion besides the safety expansion that’s already underway.

“We will not pursue any plans that infringe on treasured public spaces like Littl…