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John Ivison: Trump’s Gordie Howe victory lap is the model for making deals with him

One observer said on CUSMA, Canada has to propose something that allows Trump to take the credit ‘without doing something that’s bad’

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The unintended consequence is that anything released by governments on the last workday of the week is automatically considered suspect. Thus, the convulsions that accompanied Ottawa’s announcement late Friday that the Gordie Howe is set to open on July 27th, following the agreement of “cooperative measures focused on toll governance, including the establishment of a 15-year economic development fund tied to a portion of profits from bridge operations.”

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The suspicion was that the Trump administration had shaken down the Carney government and secured a half share of toll revenues, even though Canadian governments paid the upfront $6.4-billion cost of the bridge.

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