🇨🇦 Canada gave us a free bridge': California Congressman adds voice to open the Gordie Howe bridge chorus

Canada paid every dollar, the U.S. owns half for free, the bridge is finished, and it still sits empty. That is the entire farce. A California Democrat is now spelling out what Ottawa still mumbles around: Canadian taxpayers funded a cross-border asset and got padlocks, delays, and another lesson in what happens when your country acts like a wallet instead of a sovereign state, as reported.

Mike Levin blames Trump, points at donor politics, and sure, American power politics is dirty. But the Canadian angle is even more pathetic. Mélanie Joly offers the usual engage with the U.S. boilerplate while a national project paid for by Canadians is treated like a bargaining chip in someone else’s domestic circus. That is what post-national leadership looks like in practice: pay the bill, surrender leverage, then hold a press scrum about contact between ministers. Washington fights for American business. Ottawa funds infrastructure and waits by the phone. One country still understands national interest. The other keeps confusing submission with diplomacy.

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