Ford says he doesn't recall Carney asking him not to run the anti-tariff ad before Trump got angry.

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It seems Doug Ford experienced his conversation with Mark Carney a little differently. After being silent for a week about whether he had seen Ford’s anti-tariff ad featuring Ronald Reagan, Carney said on the weekend that he had and asked Ontario’s premier not to run it.

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On Monday at Queen’s Park, Ford was peppered with questions from reporters about Carney telling him not to run the ad.

“I had a different recollection of our conversation,” Ford said, declining to go into more detail.

Top advisors to Ford were also loath to discuss the issue, but there was a consensus that no one was left with the impression when Carney first saw the ad that he asked Ford not to run it. That, of course, changed after Trump’s decision to denounce the ad.

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