🇨🇦 Why the Gordie Howe International Bridge was 'a bad deal for Canada from the start'

Sharpest detail first: Canada paid $6.4 billion for the bridge, built the customs plazas, and now has to share half the revenue with the U.S. for 15 years after a last-minute Trump squeeze. That is not partnership. That is Ottawa writing the cheque while pretending national strategy is the same thing as national self-respect. As reported, insiders say the original 2012 deal was already a sweetheart for the U.S., and the renegotiation just made a bad arrangement worse.

Then comes the real Trudeau-era disease, even if the signatures predate the current costume changes in Ottawa: elite Canadian governance that treats surrender as sophistication. Traffic has fallen 41 per cent since 2000, yet the state still built a grand vanity project on optimistic forecasts, free facilities, and endless taxpayer exposure. Canada funds it, maintains it, carries the debt, and gets lectures about shared prosperity. This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in practice: bureaucrats call it binational co-operation, while Canadians get the bill and Washington gets the leverage.

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