As the federal government faces questions over the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to publicize details of the deal between Canada and the United States to open the delayed project.
As the federal government faces questions over the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to publicize details of the deal between Canada and the United States to open the delayed project. In a letter addressed to Carney on Friday, Poilievre is accusing the prime minister of “contradictory statements about what you’ve given away.” “So, what’s the deal?
It’s been a week; it’s time for you to release the deal so Canadians can see for themselves what you negotiated away to the Americans,” Poilievre later writes. Late last Friday, Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada confirmed the bridge, which will connect Windsor, Ont. and Detroit, Mich. will open on July 27 after weeks of delays.
Since then, the federal government’s explanation of the deal has evolved. That same day, a senior government
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source told CTV News that Canada will be getting 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. The source also said the U.S. will need to agree if Canada wants to increase bridge tolls by more than 10 per cent or lower them below compared regional averages. Then in an interview with CTV Calgary on Sunday, Carney explained that money split with the Americans would be minimal and would only happen once debt from the bridge was paid. “The word ‘net’ does a lot of work in this. We are sharing after Canada is paid back,” the prime minister said at the time. “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,” he later added, while...
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- Jul 17, 2026
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