00:00You did have a scoop this week that's Canada-related, having to do with this bridge
00:03that's kind of surrounded in controversy between the U.S. and Canada. Get us up to speed on what
00:07you've learned here through your reporting. Yeah, very quickly, this is, I mean, I don't
00:12know how quickly to do this, but this is like a decades-long saga. This Gordie Howe bridge is
00:16sitting there waiting to open, and Trump, Latinx specifically intervened to block it from opening
00:21because they wanted a bigger share. This deal was struck in 2012. The Canadians agreed to pay for
00:26everything in exchange for getting their money back. And so Mr. Carney has been under a lot
00:31of pressure domestically because questions are swirling whether Canada will get its money
00:36back and about what price he sort of paid to Trump to get this bridge open for a bridge,
00:41again, built with Canadian money in the first place. And so we have viewed the document, the
00:46sort of confidential agreement. It is simple. It is one page long. And what Carney has agreed
00:50to do is kick the equivalent of net profits after operational costs for 15 years of this
00:57bridge. He said that that might not be a lot of money. In fact, it might be negative
01:00at the start. And so this contradicts some of the prime minister's previous remarks on it.
01:06And that's why it's sort of become an issue back home. But this bridge, it just continues
01:11to be this saga. And so what they've done now is essentially set up an incentive where the
01:15more money and more traffic that goes through this toll bridge, the more money will go to this
01:20U.S. controlled regional development fund. The current bridge is privately owned. It's kind of a
01:24wacky story. You know, it's an incredibly busy trade bridge. Trucks, you know, taking every car
01:29part you can think of over and over all the way. So they want a second bridge.
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