🇨🇦 Technical issue turned out to be political surrender

Ottawa sold Canadians a fairy tale about technical concerns at the Gordie Howe bridge. Now we learn the June 10 delay request from Washington was really about governance and money on a $6.4-billion crossing, not some engineering glitch, as reported. Carney knew it, the PMO knew it, Privy Council knew it, Global Affairs knew it, and they still hid behind bureaucratic mush while the U.S. leaned on Canada to rewrite terms.

So here’s the real lesson. Canada bankrolls the bridge, then gets dragged into a revenue-sharing arrangement and toll rules because Trump-era pressure and connected U.S. interests wanted leverage. And our answer was opacity. Harb Gill is right to call it out. This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in practice: a border megaproject paid for by Canadians, negotiated in the dark, then dressed up as a harmless delay so the public won’t notice the concession. Globalist managerial politics always ends the same way: Canadians pay, insiders decide, and accountability arrives last if at all.

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