🇨🇦 Canada pays $6.4B, Washington gets veto power

That is the real Gordie Howe story. Ottawa financed the bridge, swallowed the delays, and still signed away control over toll policy. Under the deal reported, if Canada wants to raise tolls by more than 10 per cent or move below regional averages, the U.S. gets a say. So taxpayers here build the asset, then foreign concurrence becomes part of running it. Peak post-national management from the same class that lectures Canadians about sovereignty while auctioning it off in pieces.

And naturally, half of toll profits for the first 15 years do not even flow cleanly back to the country that paid for construction. They get diverted into a regional economic development fund, because every infrastructure project now needs a bureaucratic side hustle. Mark Carney delayed the opening at Washington’s request, Trump bragged he secured a better deal, and Ottawa still expects applause. Canada builds, America negotiates, our governing elite kneels and calls it partnership.

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