🇨🇦 Canada let a Michigan bridge baron into the room, then blacked out the details

Three and a half months before the Gordie Howe bridge opened, Ottawa quietly sat down with Matthew Moroun, the American owner of the Ambassador Bridge monopoly, while pretending the public just needed to trust the process. The bridge carried $140 billion in trade in 2021, about 26 per cent of Canada’s road exports, and officials still thought a secretive audience with a foreign private operator was perfectly normal. As reported, deputy minister Paul Halucha was literally briefed that he was there to listen. Naturally, the agenda and analysis are redacted.

That is modern Ottawa in one scene: sovereignty outsourced, transparency censored, and national infrastructure treated like a backroom bargaining chip. A border crossing this critical should never hinge on private dynasties, White House pressure, and bureaucrats nodding behind closed doors. Trudeau-era Canada spent years weakening state competence, then acts shocked when foreign interests and connected insiders fill the vacuum. If a quarter of our road exports runs through one corridor, Canadians should know exactly who gets heard, who gets ignored, and whose country this still is.

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