Juno News - Carney agrees to Trump’s Gordie Howe Bridge demands

00:00:00.000 Critics are slamming a deal that gives the Americans half the profits from tolls collected

00:00:10.400 on the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Canada paid the $6.4 billion cost of building the bridge,

00:00:18.300 linking Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan. President Trump insisted on a revenue-sharing

00:00:23.420 agreement, and Prime Minister Carney agreed.

00:00:53.420 build up well conservative party leader pierre paulia says carney got taken to the cleaners

00:00:58.620 imagine you spent a million dollars building a rental property and then your neighbor said

00:01:04.300 he wanted to collect half the rent you paid 100 of the cost and you get only 50 of the revenue

00:01:09.580 what a terrible deal well that's exactly the deal that mark carney just brought home on the gordie

00:01:15.500 how international bridge canada paid for the entire 6.4 billion dollar price tag we even

00:01:22.860 and funded the infrastructure on the American side of the river, all with the understanding

00:01:27.200 that we would collect 100% of the tolls until we recouped our money. Carney just agreed to

00:01:32.340 give half the tolls to a Michigan economic development body that did not pay a dime to

00:01:37.280 build the thing. This is our grandmaster negotiator. President Trump meantime declared

00:01:43.940 victory posting this on Truth Social. I was able to cut a much better deal for America,

00:01:50.240 And by doing so, we'll be allowing the new and spectacular Gordie Howe International Bridge spanning Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, to open on July 27th as scheduled.

00:02:03.660 While many Canadians could not afford the hefty cost of a ticket to any of the World Cup games, but it turns out some politicians and their staffers were let in for free.

00:02:14.800 This story from BlackLock's reporter. Soccer was free for federal VIPs.

00:02:21.320 Cabinet members and political aides received dozens of free passes to attend the FIFA World Cup,

00:02:28.400 including four staff and a summer student in the office of Liberal MP Adam Van Kvorden,

00:02:35.100 who was the Secretary of State for Sport. The tournament cost taxpayers $1.07 billion.

00:02:41.640 dollars. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson also got two free tickets to see Switzerland and Algeria.

00:02:50.220 Prime Minister Carney, meantime, was in Calgary for the stampede, but not everyone was happy to

00:02:55.480 see him. Our guest today is Dan Dix, who's an independent journalist coming to us from

00:03:00.660 the Vancouver area, I believe. Is that where you are, Dan?

00:03:04.120 Yeah, I'm currently located in Squamish, just a little bit north of Vancouver, but yeah,

00:03:08.600 over here in British Columbia. And I know you're keeping a close eye on this story.

00:03:13.240 The possibility, as has been discovered in a story by Black Locks reporter, that potentially

00:03:19.320 the government is looking at suing people over their social media posts on the grounds that it

00:03:24.280 represents misinformation. And this is obviously an attack on people's freedom of expression,

00:03:30.840 people's voicing opinions that the government doesn't like. This is troubling for people like

00:03:36.520 yourself in the business of trying to inform people about what the government is up to, isn't it?

00:03:45.020 Yeah, very troubling. I mean, I think Canadians should be pretty concerned about this one.

00:03:50.020 Thankfully, you know, we still have the Access to Information Act request possibilities,

00:03:54.260 and that's how we were able to find out about this 35-page internal memo that's been going

00:04:00.360 around the federal government through the uh minister of industry melanie jolly her her office

00:04:06.520 and you know a lot of it was redacted of course as the government likes to do but um the parts

00:04:13.000 that were visible are pretty chilling um they're literally discussing the possibility of suing

00:04:20.200 canadian citizens for posting quote misinformation online um so we're talking about your posts your

00:04:27.640 facebook posts your tweets uh your linkedin comment it's all going to potentially be uh you

00:04:34.680 know silenced if they don't like what you have to say um and not not only that uh mark they're

00:04:41.320 they're literally talking about uh preventive action so not not only just reacting to misinformation

00:04:49.880 but trying to you know stop it before it happens under their so-called misinformation and

00:04:55.800 disinformation strategy so we're talking real time surveillance of them trying to shut you down

00:05:02.360 before you even have the ability to post something so this is like big big brother on steroids this

00:05:09.160 is uh this is like minority report kind of thought crime stuff and um again you know this is just a

00:05:16.280 memo at this point but even just the fact that they're discussing these things uh should be of

00:05:21.080 a grave concern to Canadians their goal is has been stated as you know coming up with ways of

00:05:29.880 bringing back the public trust in government information so they don't think that you as a

00:05:39.240 you know sovereign citizen is capable of deciding what is right what is wrong what is factually true

00:05:45.400 and what is incorrect no they want to be the arbiters of truth they want to be the ones who

00:05:50.680 are going to decide uh what is true and what is not and um literally have the ability to take you

00:05:57.880 to court over this and and sue you you wouldn't be able to have any kind of judicial oversight

00:06:03.160 you wouldn't be able to have any kind of a neutral you know fact checker they would just

00:06:08.520 be able to say no that's misinformation and uh and and and you know have you sued for this

00:06:15.080 so it's absolutely crazy and uh you know I find it kind of rich when you know they're they're

00:06:21.800 saying they need to uphold the public trust in government information and I think Canadians need

00:06:27.000 to ask themselves why have we lost trust in the government information in the first place

00:06:32.040 well because we've been lied to so many times and because the government is often trying to steer

00:06:38.200 our ideas and our beliefs and our opinions and our behaviors in their own desired

00:06:44.120 I actually gave a presentation on this back a few months ago when I was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, talking about how the government came up with something called the Innovation Unit, the Impact and Innovation Unit, straight out of the Privy Council, where they were coming up with ways to steer Canadians' behaviors into areas where they normally wouldn't necessarily go on their own, especially during the COVID era with stuff like masking and social distancing

00:07:13.120 and taking part in the global inoculation program,

00:07:16.080 they had a think tank for how to make us think about these things.

00:07:20.080 And so I think a lot of Canadians have realized

00:07:22.560 that their mistrust in their so-called information is justified.

00:07:29.340 And they're going to flip the script here

00:07:31.400 and try to sue you for going against anything that they have to say.

00:07:36.560 This is protecting the narrative.

00:07:39.000 Let's get that straight.

00:07:40.040 I mean, this has nothing to do with protecting Canadians

00:07:42.900 this has to do with them protecting their narratives. So if you want to dissent,

00:07:49.260 if you have ideas that contradict theirs, if you want to post inconvenient facts that

00:07:55.620 goes against their narratives, they want to have the ability to be able to shut you down

00:08:00.800 by suing you into oblivion. It's absolutely insane. Yeah, I mean, they look over at China

00:08:06.060 and think, wow, only we could do what they do, where they totally control the information, 0.91

00:08:11.940 they geoblock any information. There's certain sites you cannot go on. Only government-approved

00:08:18.560 information is released to the public. I have no doubt that these guys think that that's just

00:08:23.540 the best way to go. The whole freedom of speech thing or the freedom of expression thing, they

00:08:28.140 don't understand it, and they don't get this internet thing either, because people are going

00:08:32.200 to post whatever the hell they want on social media, and they have no control over it, and it

00:08:36.680 drives them absolutely batty, because then they do their internal polling and see that nobody

00:08:41.780 believes anything that they say, or maybe, you know, 25, 30% of people actually trust the

00:08:48.040 government. And this is after they've already bought off the media. So they already have this

00:08:54.220 tsunami of propaganda, you know, hitting the population, but that's not good enough. You know,

00:09:00.620 they've got the, they own the media, they bought them off. So, you know, yeah, they've got a couple

00:09:06.240 of outlets that don't take government money and that they are a thorn on the side of the government

00:09:12.240 and so it's social media that they need to get a grip on they want to get all you know they want

00:09:17.160 to be able to control it because they see that nobody believes a word that they say and so that's

00:09:22.980 how they're trying to do that by using the hammer basically lawfare against people threatening people

00:09:29.820 and who knows? They may even go the way of the UK. What do they do over there, Dan? I mean,

00:09:36.940 they have jailed over 12,000 people, arrested 12,000 people because of Facebook posts that

00:09:43.320 they don't like. Many of those posts have been around immigration, which people out there are

00:09:48.360 extremely upset about. So you're creating essentially a powder keg by trying to prevent

00:09:53.580 people from expressing opinions that they don't like. It's a very tyrannical and extremely

00:09:59.480 disturbing way for governments to operate. But it just shows the mentality of these people.

00:10:05.700 I mean, how serious are they about doing this, do you think?

00:10:09.680 Oh, they're very serious. They've already put pen to paper and started to, you know,

00:10:14.460 make laws to make this happen. You know, we can see that as very recently with the passings of

00:10:21.520 Bill C-8 and Bill C-9, you know, the so-called Cybersecurity Act and the Combating Hate Act in

00:10:27.340 C-9. C-9 would go after your protected, you know, speech. And C-8 is the infrastructure and the

00:10:35.980 mechanisms for how to actually shut you down. So they're putting pen to paper. These bills have

00:10:40.680 reached royal assent. They're becoming law. So they're not messing around. They're very,

00:10:46.020 very serious about this. And you got to consider what is in these particular bills, like, you know,

00:10:50.920 c9 is you know adding things to combat hate but obviously who decides what is hateful but beyond

00:10:59.780 what they've added to the bill what's concerning is some of the things they've taken out like the

00:11:04.900 the religious defense protections yeah so for example this is where you know the conversation

00:11:12.720 of the bible comes into play if you are quoting scripture for example you're reading from 0.86

00:11:18.340 Romans or maybe Leviticus, and you say something like, you know, in quoting it, a man is not to

00:11:25.520 lie with another man as he would a woman. That's an abomination. Well, there was a time when people 0.99

00:11:31.220 would say that that's hate speech. You're not allowed to say something like that. And you could

00:11:35.820 say, well, you know, I'm sorry you feel like that, but it's, you know, my religious right to quote my,

00:11:42.080 you know, religious beliefs. They're removing that so that you won't be able to use that as

00:11:48.000 defense anymore and then you know some whatever leftists can have you shut down because they're

00:11:54.080 butthurt about what you said and then you follow that up with bill c8 and this is you know the

00:11:59.920 the mechanisms for how to shut down somebody who they've determined to be quote hateful and uh this

00:12:06.240 is given the telecommunication companies the you know the the abilities to shut you down um if they

00:12:12.560 say so and they even have gag orders on these companies so that they they won't even tell you

00:12:18.080 why you've been shut down but they've literally set up the switch that can be flipped at any time

00:12:24.800 on anyone for just about any reason to silence your voice online this is like censorship on pcp

00:12:33.520 um and yeah they're very serious about it they've literally put pen to paper and are making it law

00:12:38.080 now yeah and to your point earlier about how seriously these people in government are treating

00:12:43.820 it i mean they're it's already happening right according to the story and i believe that the

00:12:48.200 managers are already monitoring so they're they're paying these civil servants to go online to go on

00:12:55.200 facebook and x and everywhere else and monitor the uh official social media channels and media

00:13:03.540 outlets on a daily basis for comments and recurring, quote-unquote, inaccuracies. This

00:13:09.420 is right out of the memo. Disinformation or misinformation and disinformation strategy.

00:13:16.320 New measures will be used to transition from a reactive stance to one that is focused on

00:13:22.980 prevention. So they want to essentially shut people up ahead of time. They want people to

00:13:29.460 self-censor, Dan. They want you to think twice before you post, you know, anything about this

00:13:36.180 government. So they're discouraging the free and open discourse that they say they champion, but

00:13:43.780 obviously they do not. They just really don't like us talking about them. And the more we talk about

00:13:49.860 it, the more angry they get, and the more they cook up these bills and measures aimed at shutting

00:13:58.100 people up yeah yeah you nailed it there with they want to help people to self-censor i mean

00:14:05.680 that's the crux of it you know and and when when you when when there's people out there who rely

00:14:12.080 on you know their livelihoods are you know dealing with online activity they they may realize that

00:14:19.000 wait a minute they've set up the switch that can be flipped at any time maybe i shouldn't voice my

00:14:23.940 opinion about this particular thing. Maybe I should just sit back and be a little bit quiet

00:14:28.460 because I don't want to lose my job. And that's literally the opposite of what we need to do.

00:14:34.460 I think Canadians need to move forward with integrity and move forward on principle.

00:14:42.720 And you want to be able to tell your kids and your grandkids that you didn't just succumb to

00:14:46.940 Big Brother. You didn't, you know, silence yourself. You spoke truth as you saw it without

00:14:52.940 any kind of fear of what they're going to do and I think that's what people need to do moving

00:14:57.380 forward self-censorship as you put it is is the goal and they they want to silence you before you

00:15:04.240 even think about you know saying anything and not even think about posting so yeah that's why they

00:15:10.640 have this measure in this misinformation and disinformation strategy to prevent your discussions

00:15:17.600 so-called early detection, which, again, is just real-time surveillance of some of the things

00:15:25.460 you're saying. And if they determine that you might cause something hateful to be said,

00:15:32.180 and surprisingly, you don't even have to cause any harm to anybody. It's just if they perceive

00:15:38.240 that your words, not your actions, your words might upset somebody and make somebody else feel

00:15:44.860 hateful about something that's going to be enough to shut you down yeah like precog in minority

00:15:50.660 report as you already mentioned it's interesting the bevo also talks about well they don't call

00:15:56.940 it the streisand effect i call it the streisand effect but this is something that happens when

00:16:02.340 you am you inadvertently amplify the very thing that you want to stop so they talk about further

00:16:10.300 backlash, noting that the targeting of certain individuals could generate unwanted publicity,

00:16:17.580 responding to misinformation. This is the quote right out of the memo. Responding to misinformation

00:16:23.180 can unintentionally amplify it by increasing visibility or lending legitimacy to fringe

00:16:31.660 sources. So they're torn here, Dan. You know, yeah, we hate these people and we want to shut

00:16:37.100 them up. But we know that if we use the hammer of lawsuits against these people, then it'll end up

00:16:43.380 being reported potentially by whatever remnants of legitimate media, they're still out there,

00:16:49.520 and it'll get out and we'll end up amplifying the very thing that we want to shut down. So I guess

00:16:56.400 that's what they're trying to navigate right now, isn't it, Dan? Well, yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean,

00:17:01.760 they literally openly admitted that it could backfire on them, that it might amplify certain

00:17:08.480 ideas. But then they went ahead and did it anyways. You know, they continued on moving

00:17:13.380 forward with this memo and suggesting that this is what they should do. But, you know, like they

00:17:19.500 said and admitted, yeah, it could backfire on them, you know. And I think that's why, you know,

00:17:25.620 during the COVID era, as I was saying earlier, they were coming up with, you know, think tanks

00:17:30.440 and ways to counter people's ideas about that.

00:17:34.200 And it's interesting, you mentioned how a lot of this is coming from a blueprint from the UK.

00:17:39.080 Well, it was in the United Kingdom, where I think it was a book that was co-authored by Cass Sunstein,

00:17:46.720 where it was called Nudge, and it was dealing with the nudge theory or the nudge factor,

00:17:51.280 where you can slowly nudge people along to get them to do certain behaviors that they normally wouldn't be willing to do.

00:17:59.440 And the government took their cue from that here in Canada, set up a think tank and started to try to figure out how to nudge people along into their desired areas of, you know, into their direction.

00:18:12.820 And and and so they know how to manipulate us and they want to, you know, make sure that they're on top of us not being able to counter that.

00:18:22.940 So, again, if you're going against the status quo, if you have any serious discussions you want to talk about in terms of their narrative, they want to be able to squash that.

00:18:35.320 And so, again, it's not about protecting people as they're going to paint this as.

00:18:40.820 It's about protecting the government narrative and whatever that may be moving forward.

00:18:48.060 And basically, like we said, censorship on PCP.

00:18:51.020 well that's interesting because i think my job is to throw a monkey wrench into their messaging

00:18:55.540 every chance i get how do people find you online dan the best place to go is pressfortruth.ca

00:19:03.120 at the top of the website you can find a number of links or you could go to pressfortruth.ca

00:19:08.740 slash subscribe and there you'll find all the various video platforms that i share on these

00:19:14.740 days, including Rumble and BitChute and Odyssey and X and YouTube. And it's all there at

00:19:21.820 pressfortruth.ca. Dan Dix, thank you so much for coming on the show, Dan. We really appreciate it.

00:19:27.700 My pleasure. Thanks for having me. If you enjoyed the show, consider supporting great

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Juno News - July 14, 2026

Carney agrees to Trump’s Gordie Howe Bridge demands

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