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Rob Breakenridge: Come clean on the bridge deal, Mr. Carney

If the prime minister had just told the truth about the agreement with Trump, Canadians would have likely understood

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Ten days after word of the deal was first announced, the details of the Gordie Howe International Bridge revenue-sharing agreement between Canada and the U.S. have finally emerged.

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That’s at least nine days longer than otherwise should have been the case, but clearly those details were going to emerge at some point. So why on earth was the prime minister making claims about the deal that would inevitably be disproven and discredited?

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When it comes to dealing with a mercurial and belligerent U.S. president, Mark Carney still enjoys a fair amount of leeway and benefit of the doubt from the Canadian public. Given the importance of opening this new bridge, coupled with Trump’s abrupt intervention to block that opening, Canadians would likely have been in a forgiving mood for a compromise deal.

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