Didn’t the deal fall through, or am I out of date?
The bridge fully opened 3 days ago. the US side did not attend the opening ceremony on the 24th, which might be what you are thinking of. There was a whole long drama with Maroun, the dickhead that owns the only other bridge across (that bridge has made him a billionaire). He did everything he could to delay the project the entire time it was going on.
Well, it’s kind of complicated 😁
We signed the original deal a decade and change ago and then built the bridge. The deal was that all revenues would go to canada until the 4.5 billion usd price was paid back, then it would go to income splitting.
Trump said ‘nope’ and Carney and trump agreed to a new deal. But Carney would not let the details be released. However the documents have since been leaked, and we BELIEVE the leaked version is correct. The liberals have not said otherwise.
The new deal is a more of a preliminary deal document which is being finalized, but the terms of the deal are laid out.
Carney said the new deal still included the ‘pay back canada for the bridge’ clause, but its’ pretty clear from the leaked doc that it does not. Carney has subsequently said he "could have explained that better’ and does not deny that will no longer be the case.
There is also a requirement now to pay into a ‘development fund’ for ‘the area’ which is thought to mean it would be spent on the US side, and may even go to maintenance of the competing bridge. The libs refuse to confirm or deny that.
So … the NEW deal is still in place but there are a few elements which SOUND pretty bad but we’re not sure about. It seems certain however that when carney said (two times) that the bridge would include repayment he was not speaking accurately. Some say he lied, some say he may have been “misbriefed,” but either way it looks horrible and hence the pic
Jeez, Carney is not being as hard on Trump as I wished he would’ve, guess I’ll have to vote green/ndp next year.
I almost wanna run conservative myself, I hold some conservative values but all of the con leadership are absolute fucking pussies I couldn’t stomach voting for any of em.
Well the NDPis always an option. If you kind of like the conservatives but you don’t like the current candidates you should probably get involved with your local writing association and see about helping to pick a candidate that you like. Or if you’ve already got a conservative MP in your writing meet with his or her policy committee or them directly and talk about what you’d like to see different. You’d be amazed at how much of an effect that has and if you feel that way then there’s bound to be others who also feel that way.
Democracy isn’t about just showing up once every four or five years to vote after all 😁
Do you mean “riding,” or is “writing” a term I’ve not learned about in civics class?
Fucking disappointing. I’m so tired.