The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 11, 2026


Carney Humiliated by Trump - Gives 50% Revenue on Gordie Howe Bridge that Canada built!


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The Gordie Howe Bridge has been a long time project that has been in the works for years. Canada paid for the entire $6.4 billion project, but now Donald Trump doesn't want the bridge to open until they get more money from the United States.

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00:00:00.000 So, it turns out, Prime Minister Mark Carney, the guy who lied about being good at negotiating with people like Donald Trump, still sucks at negotiating.
00:00:10.960 Not only has he completely failed to get a trade deal with the Americans, but now Donald Trump is eating his lunch on the Gordie Howe Bridge situation.
00:00:20.780 And let's be clear, Canada paid for the entire construction of the bridge, to the tune of $6 billion.
00:00:27.300 And the way that this was supposed to play out was Canada was going to get 100% of the toll revenues until the bridge was paid off, at which point it would turn into a 50-50 revenue sharing arrangement between Canada and the state of Michigan.
00:00:45.040 Donald Trump said, no, we're not going to open the bridge unless we make this more fair for us.
00:00:49.720 and Carney has completely capitulated because he's not tough. He's not good at playing hardball.
00:00:56.400 He sucks at negotiating. The thing on trade is I'm not here to blame one side or the other for 0.98
00:01:02.760 the trade issues. I want competent negotiations and this Gordie Howe situation proves Carney is
00:01:10.460 not competent when it comes to negotiating. Check out this clip from just a couple days ago when he
00:01:16.580 in saudi arabia being asked about the trade situation and the gordy howe bridge he makes
00:01:21.700 it sound like he's just gonna walk into trump's office and put it on a powerpoint presentation
00:01:27.380 and explain to him the state of things and why we're just going to open up the bridge
00:01:32.020 with the original agreement and as we all know that did not happen mckenzie gray with global news
00:01:38.580 um you've been spending a lot of time with donald trump you had a long conversation with him on the
00:01:41.620 phone at nato big thumbs up uh the cameras caught you doing that one thing we've heard from the
00:01:46.100 americans is that if there's going to be a breakthrough on trade needs to happen at the
00:01:49.300 leaders level so do you think you've made any progress with the president when it comes to trade
00:01:53.940 i'll keep you posted i have to say though like just he's never kept us posted it's been well
00:02:01.140 over a year since we've gotten a single update from the canadian side canadians get more updates
00:02:06.980 on the current trade situation from the U.S. ambassador and other American officials than we
00:02:12.720 get from our own officials. But now they're going to bring up the Gordie Howe bridge and he's going
00:02:17.320 to act like all we have to do is clarify a few things. The U.S. ambassador has said that there
00:02:25.580 are two issues the Americans have, control of the bridge and tolls. They want more money sooner.
00:02:30.240 Are you willing to renegotiate the current agreement to make sure the bridge opens?
00:02:33.880 I think we're willing to clarify aspects of the current arrangements.
00:02:40.220 So we're going to clarify a few aspects about the current arrangement, basically saying, yeah, I'm just going to basically tell him how it is a little bit slower, and then the bridge is going to open.
00:02:53.980 Well, that's not what happened.
00:02:56.400 So Mackenzie Gray here from Global, I believe he said that. Yeah, it's Global News. Here he said, here are some of the details on what Canada had to give up to open the Gordie Howe Bridge as per a Canadian government source.
00:03:12.920 For the first 15 years, Canada gets 50% of the toll profits and the other 50% goes into a regional economic development fund. What that fund does and who runs it is not clear.
00:03:25.760 Under the previous agreement, Canada was to receive 100% of the toll profit until they were made whole on the $6.4 billion they spent to build the bridge, which Michigan and the U.S. contributed $0 to.
00:03:41.820 The agreement also says it could be 50-plus years before Canada was whole.
00:03:46.880 That timeline is now longer.
00:03:49.380 Americans will have to agree if Canada wants to increase the bridge's toll by more than 10%
00:03:54.120 or lower them below compared regional averages.
00:03:57.980 That clause helps out the owner of the Ambassador Bridge, the Marin family,
00:04:03.580 who have donated to the Trump administration and previously to U.S. Ambassador to Canada,
00:04:11.540 Pete Hoekstra, to try and stop the new bridge from opening. So yeah, this looks really bad.
00:04:18.360 And by the way, this does look bad on the Americans. It was just a stupid issue to get 0.99
00:04:23.520 this petty over. But if you're Carney, or let's just say you're the prime minister, 0.99
00:04:28.020 because having to be Carney is a scary thought, why not just play hardball? Just say it's going
00:04:32.540 to open anyways. Start trying to move trucks down and let Trump eat the bad news story about him
00:04:38.240 basically not letting Canada open the bridge it exclusively paid for. But Carney is a complete
00:04:43.800 wimp. He doesn't know what he's doing. And Trump can detect that. And that's why he pushes him 0.99
00:04:49.380 every once in a while. He doesn't need to give Mark Carney a trade deal because Carney's not
00:04:54.600 willing to do anything that significant in retaliation. Every once in a while, Carney
00:04:59.580 kind of gets tough a little bit. Trump says, you can't do that. And then Carney's like,
00:05:03.600 oh my goodness, I'm so sorry. And then gives up a concession for no reason. I don't care
00:05:08.060 about what Trump said or what Canadian officials said. I just want competent negotiators who know
00:05:14.660 how to get into the room, knowing what might need to be given up in order to get something back in
00:05:19.700 return. But the current Canadian government, they'll basically just completely deny the idea
00:05:26.920 that canada has to give up anything for a trade deal and then we get into the room and give up 0.88
00:05:31.280 stuff but not even for a trade deal it's complete lunacy it's complete clown world over there in it
00:05:37.420 like with the liberals i keep hearing that dominic leblanc is a fairly serious individual when it
00:05:43.980 comes to being like a good negotiator for canada i have not seen that at all maybe is he a more
00:05:51.980 kind of moderate liberal and probably a bunch of conservatives could get along with him and see
00:05:56.540 eye to eye with him. Sure. But the problem is, is under the instructions of Mark Carney, what he's
00:06:02.140 allowed to say and do into the U.S. seems like he's only ever allowed to capitulate while getting
00:06:06.740 absolutely nothing in return. Here was the response of President Donald Trump to all this news.
00:06:11.820 He says, I was able to cut a much better deal for America. And by doing so, we'll be allowing
00:06:18.300 the new and spectacular Gordie Howe International Bridge spanning Detroit and Windsor, Ontario,
00:06:23.700 to open up on July 27th as scheduled.
00:06:27.340 The original deal made was unacceptable to me.
00:06:33.260 The new deal is great and fair.
00:06:35.040 Thank you and congratulations to the Canadian government.
00:06:37.720 We may both have many years of success with this wonderful new development,
00:06:41.640 President Donald J. Trump.
00:06:44.040 So isn't that a thing for Donald Trump to say right now?
00:06:49.140 who wants to bet if the Canadian legacy media is actually going to cover this issue as a failure
00:06:56.620 of Mark Carney, or they are going to cover it as bullying from Donald Trump? Because my money is
00:07:02.220 that they're going to basically act as if, well, this was just going to happen because Donald
00:07:07.460 Trump's unreasonable. Well, Carney, make him reasonable. Do something that would actually risk
00:07:14.580 causing bad headlines for Trump unless he does what you want or make a smaller concession in
00:07:21.000 order to get the bridge open. The idea that this is like going to be probably pitched by the
00:07:27.840 Canadian government as a win is absolutely pathetic. They're going to act like, well, 0.99
00:07:32.380 you know, we got the bridge open, didn't we? I want to jump ahead now to what the liberals are
00:07:38.620 posting today because obviously they know that this is a bad look. So we're going to get into
00:07:43.840 some patriot some patriotic messaging right before the news comes down for the average person in the
00:07:49.360 news uh the liberal party here says we believe that the greatest country on earth can become
00:07:54.560 even greater still every generation of canadians inherit something that was built by the generations
00:08:01.520 before a railway a seaway a charter of rights a path towards reconciliation a country that's more
00:08:12.300 prosperous more just more inclusive than the one they inherited from their parents
00:08:19.020 none of us builds on empty ground we build on those platforms raised by those who came before us
00:08:25.660 and our job our duty even is to raise it higher still for those who come after
00:08:35.580 like i was talking about building right after we built an entire bridge and then just let
00:08:39.500 let the Americans have 50% of the total revenues.
00:08:44.480 He's repeating the same thing in French. 0.99
00:08:46.520 But they're going to put a lot of patriotic garbage 0.98
00:08:48.780 over the next 48 hours or so 0.95
00:08:51.020 to try and just kind of bury on social media
00:08:53.680 all the news about the Gordie Howe Bridge.
00:08:56.520 Can they answer me,
00:08:58.420 what would be worse about the current situation
00:09:01.580 if Pierre Paulyov was the Prime Minister of Canada?
00:09:04.580 Would he have screwed up this negotiation?
00:09:06.800 Would he have capitulated to Donald Trump
00:09:09.380 because that was always the fear that the liberals were pushing.
00:09:13.180 You can't let Pierre Pagliav be prime minister.
00:09:16.280 He's going to capitulate to Trump.
00:09:18.040 Well, what's Mark Carney doing?
00:09:19.880 And by the way, it's always fun that you can say that about your opponent
00:09:22.680 who's not the prime minister and is not able to make decisions,
00:09:25.260 but you are the person who's in charge and keep doing it.
00:09:29.460 But you're still saying, well, the other guy's going to capitulate even harder than me.
00:09:34.620 I don't think so.
00:09:36.200 like the thing too is that we could easily be getting some actual trade like momentum on trade
00:09:42.740 if we had any if we had like just any guts in the liberal government to go in there willing to put
00:09:51.380 to put something you know rhetorically risk yourself to enter the room with the americans
00:09:55.940 in order to demand things be able to concede some things in order to come to a deal that makes
00:10:00.840 everyone at least semi-happy. The problem is the liberals know signing deals with Donald Trump
00:10:06.740 might tick off their own elbows up base. And it's resulting in things like this. This is from
00:10:11.960 Trending Politics. I'm not going to read the whole thing. But it says here, the Carney government did
00:10:16.960 not send anyone to defend Canadian workers this week as the United States considers whether to
00:10:22.900 hit our auto, steel, and softwood with a new wave of tariffs. Trade lawyer Barry Appleton went in
00:10:29.420 their place. And what he saw inside the Washington hearing room left him sickened, Toronto Star
00:10:34.560 report. And it goes into how basically during this time when they are considering new tariffs,
00:10:40.720 the Mexicans showed up, other people showed up, Canada didn't show up. Canada didn't contend for
00:10:46.580 its own workers, this government who keeps saying they're standing up for workers. They don't.
00:10:50.460 They simply subsidize jobs to keep them from going away. They just keep jobs on life support,
00:10:56.740 never actually pushing back against the Americans, demanding concessions, maybe you may be making
00:11:03.160 their own concessions in order so that the Americans would make concessions. They're not
00:11:06.580 doing any of that. That that would make Carney rhetorically uncomfortable. He doesn't want to
00:11:12.360 do that. It could make him look bad. So you either get to lose your job or basically have your job
00:11:17.400 holding on by a fingernail so that he doesn't look bad in a news cycle, which is really funny
00:11:24.160 because he already has all of the media in his pocket since the Canadian government funds them
00:11:29.020 so much. And yet he is still terrified of like the slight criticism that would have to come out
00:11:35.680 of the CBC or CTV news if he messed anything up, even though they'd probably quickly bury that bad
00:11:40.940 news cycle and replace it with some story about how Pierre Polyev has a leadership issue or
00:11:45.760 whatever. It's all so annoying. But anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for watching.
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