Gordie Howe Bridge Dispute Sparks Tensions Between US and Canada

But you did have a scoop this week. That's Canada related having to do with this, this bridge, uh, that's come in surrounded in controversy between the US and Canada. Get us up to speed on what you've learned here. Three reporting. Uh, very, very quickly. This is I mean, I think they do this like a decades long saga, this Gordie Howe Bridge, just sitting there waiting to help. And Trump specifically intervened to block it from opening because they wanted a bigger share. This deal was struck in 2012. The Canadians agreed to pay for everything in exchange for getting their money back. And so Carney, Mr. Carney has been under a lot of pressure domestically because questions are swirling whether Canada will get its

money back and about what price he sort of paid to Trump to get this bridge open for a bridge, again built with Canadian money in the first place. And so we have viewed the document, the sort of confidential agreement. It is simple. It is one page long. And what Carney has agreed to do is kick the equivalent of net profits after operational costs for 15 years of this bridge. He said that might not be a lot of money. In fact, it might be negative at the start. And so, uh, this contradicts some of the Prime minister's previous remarks, uh, on it. And that's why it's sort of, uh, become

an issue back home. But this bridge, it just, you know, continues to be the saga. And so what they've done now is essentially set up an incentive where the more money and more traffic that goes through this toll bridge. Yeah, the more money will go to this U.S. controlled regional development fund. The current bridge is it's privately owned. It's kind of a wacky story. You know, it's incredibly busy trade bridge trucks, you know, taking every car apart you can think of over and over all the other way. So they want a second bridge.