🇨🇦 Lutnick boasts U.S. will get 50% of net revenue on Gordie Howe Bridge, calls it ‘Art of the Deal’

Canada fronted $6.4 billion, and now a U.S. cabinet secretary is gloating that Washington gets 50% of net revenues until 2041 and a say over tolls. That is not partnership. That is Ottawa paying the bill while pretending sovereignty is a rounding error. The real punchline is the fog around the arrangement itself: Carney says one thing, U.S. officials imply another, and the legal text still is not public, as reported.

This is how the managerial class operates. Announce cooperative measures and transparency, then keep the actual terms blurry while foreigners publicly celebrate the upside. If the U.S. can veto toll changes above 10%, that is leverage over Canadian infrastructure dressed up as cross-border harmony. Trudeau-era Canada normalized paying more, controlling less, and calling it diplomacy. Carney looks determined to keep the same habit alive, right down to the contradictory talking points and post-national shrug.

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