‘Good deal for Canada:’ PM Carney insists not a lot of revenue to split with U.S. on Gordie Howe Bridge

Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending the deal brokered between Canada and the United States to open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge, despite changes made to split revenue with the U.S. sooner than originally planned.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending the deal brokered between Canada and the United States to open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge and insists the revenue split with the Americans will be minimal. “We are sharing after Canada is paid back,” Carney said in an interview with CTV Calgary’s Tara Nelson at the Calgary Stampede on Sunday when asked about the agreement. “We get the revenues.

Then the servicing of the costs of the bridge and paying the debt of the bridge, and then what’s left over, there’s a split of that for 15 years,” he said. “There’s not going to be a lot of net to split,” the prime minister later added. The federal government announced late Friday that the bridge, which will connect Windsor, Ont.

and Detroit, Mich., will open on July 27 after an agreement was struck following weeks of delays and public criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump. The new crossing is expected to significantly ease congestion at the nearby Ambassador Bridge and streamline cross-border trade. According to a senior government source, Canada will get 50 per cent of the bridge’s toll profits in the first 15 years, with the other 50 per cent going into an economic development fund.

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