🇨🇦 Growing chorus of U.S. politicians calls for the Gordie Howe Bridge to be opened

Canada fronted $7 billion, the bridge was supposed to open in June, and now U.S. politicians are begging their own president to stop blocking it. That is the absurdity in one frame. Ottawa gets to play banker, Americans get the leverage, and cross-border infrastructure that links Windsor to Detroit turns into a hostage situation for Washington factional warfare, as reported.

The snippet says Trump vowed to block the opening after a US$1 million contribution from the Moroun family, which owns the competing Ambassador Bridge. Meanwhile Democrats suddenly discover the magic words jobs, commerce, and auto industry when Michigan feels pain. Fine. But from a Canadian national-interest lens, the real lesson is simpler: when your economy and strategic infrastructure are this entangled with U.S. political games, sovereignty is a slogan, not a policy. Canada pays, waits 35 years for repayment from tolls, and still gets told it is just the bank. Peak post-national genius.

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