The opposition MPs have expressed increasing frustration at the lack of information about the deal that will open the long-awaited border crossing between Canada and the U.S., while several of them are calling for the release of a copy by the federal government.
The Conservatives as well as the NDP wrote to the Liberal Government to demand more information on the agreement to open the $6,4 billion Gordie-Howe International Bridge that Canada fully paid for.
Heather McPherson of the NDP, who is the critic of international trade for the party, said Monday that Canadians want full transparency about the cost of the project as well as the text of the Canada-U.S. Agreement. We find it unacceptable that the government refuses to provide answers about this project.
A Monday request for comments was not responded to by the Prime Minister’s Office.
According to the original agreement, signed over a decade earlier, Canada would recoup costs by using toll revenue and split it with Michigan.
The Canadian government had announced earlier this month that it has struck a new deal with the U.S. for the opening of the bridge between Windsor and Detroit, scheduled to take place on the 27th July. In a statement, the government said that the agreement includes provisions for toll management as well as an investment of profits in a fund dedicated to economic development. The statement provided very few details.
At the time, a number of federal office spokespeople declined to provide more information.
The week after, Mark Carney gave reporters information that seemed contradictory about the agreement. This was a deal reached following weeks of uncertainty that had followed the delay in the June bridge opening.
Carney, along with Gregor Robertson (the housing and infrastructure ministry), initially stated that the new pact would include a plan for dividing “net profits” of tolls equally between Canada and an economic development fund, which Carney said was to be used on the U.S.-side of the border.
Carney’s statement that debt repayments would take priority over profits in the 15-year period is not clear.
On Thursday, however, he stated that the “net revenue” would include operational costs such as toll booth maintenance, staffing, and maintenance. The previous agreement for crossings remains intact, he said.
The Trump administration, however, has stated that the division of Canada’s net revenue will occur before the payment of Canada’s national debt — seemingly in contradiction to the Prime Minister’s previous comments.
Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s social media post stated that “our share comes before interest and principal.” This is the Art of the Deal at work.
Bloomberg News reports that the text of this agreement doesn’t include any provisions related to Canada’s repayment of debt.
Carney received a letter from the Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Friday outlining the different explanations for the agreement.
Poilievre wrote: “In answering yesterday’s questions, you contradicted yourself about the amount of money you gave away.” You first said that it was not a split of tolls for the bridge. You then continued by saying, “It’s an agreement to split net revenue for 15 years.”
What is the truth? “Are the Americans receiving a share or not?”
Poilievre questioned Carney’s description of the time and method by which Canada’s debt will be paid.
In a letter sent to Robertson, and Dominic LeBlanc the Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, the NDP criticized that the government refused to provide details on how net profits would be calculated. This was especially concerning given the reports indicating Canada and Windsor may have less to gain from the project than their U.S. counterparts.
McPherson added, “Canadians learn more about this deal from U.S. government sources than their own.” Canadians are entitled to the full details of this agreement, as they paid for it.

Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada was personally instructed by Donald Trump to cease poisoning American air.
Trump told reporters that he discussed wildfire management when he and Carney watched the World Cup final between Argentina and Spain on Sunday in East Rutherford (N.J.).
“I said, I meant, “You have to stop the fires coming into our area and poisoning our atmosphere.” Trump told the Joint Base Andrews audience afterward that “our air had been poisoned.”
Carney said that the U.S. President has “a good relationship” with him before repeating his threat of imposing financial penalties to his northern neighbor for wildfires impacting U.S. Air Quality.
We’ll do everything we can to help. Maybe they could pay some compensation or we can impose tariffs. “But it was horrible,” Trump replied. Trump said, “I’m talking about the businesses that closed in Michigan in particular.”
Carney told reporters on Monday that he “made it very clear” to Trump about Canada’s efforts to contain the wildfires.
Carney, who recently spoke with President Obama, told CBC News he conveyed to him the magnitude of the issue, including the “scale of the forests that Canada has — 8 times larger than Texas — and the fact that our drought conditions extend from Texas to Minnesota in American terms.
Carney said that he also highlighted Canada’s investment in firefighting. “$12 billion over the past few years but more importantly, there are now more than 5,000 courageous women and men – firefighters – on these frontlines.”
Prime Minister Harper also emphasized Canada’s contribution to the American catastrophes.
Carney admitted that managing the situation is “a complex matter”. Carney said, “We’re managing it and will continue to manage this.”
The toxic smoke which blanketed Michigan, and the northern states of the U.S., forced cities to close beaches, splashpads, Red Oaks Water Park, and indoor pools.
Detroit Free Press reports that workers from Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant were hospitalized after they inhaled wildfire smoke within non-air conditioned buildings.
Trump’s threat to wildfires
In a social media posting on Friday, Trump threatened Canada to pay the price for U.S. poor air quality. He also joined other Republican House members in criticizing Canada’s forest-management practices as “wilful neglect.”
The president said in an online post Friday that Canada is responsible for not maintaining its Forests and Brush. “The United States are being invaded unnecessarily by dirty, polluted, and unhealthy air.”
This is Willful Negligence and is becoming a yearly occurrence. It costs the United States Billions Dollars. The cost of pollution has to be added on top of the TARIFFS that Canada pays.
Canadians are “preferring to help one another,” said Minister Tim Hodgson during a Monday media conference held in Prince George (B.C.). He was referring to the past support Canada provided in fighting fires in the United States.
We want to be good neighbors and allies.
He said that the federal government was doing what it could to fight wildfires. This included training new firefighters, purchasing more water bombers and supporting provinces to deliver emergency services.
He said: “Extreme Weather is a Global Challenge and We Have to Recognize That We’re Doing Our Part By Trying to Be a Clean and Conventional Energy Superpower.” The world would be better if everyone worked together instead of pointing at each other.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said that Trump’s remarks were “disappointing, to say the very least” during a Monday wildfire briefing.
Ford said, “With the wealth the U.S. possesses, this guy is sitting around complaining.” Why don’t send some water bombers up? Why don’t we start to help you, just like you would?
You should always support your neighbors. “That’s what I want to say to President.”
Ford reminded President Trump and Republican lawmakers that it is time to pay back the Canadian efforts to restore power in the U.S. following Hurricane Helene 2024, as well as the California Wildfires of last year.
We have also done this for our American Friends. Ford stated that this is what people are supposed to be doing.
Premier said that he believes Americans make good neighbors, but they need to act like it.
Senator from the U.S. proposes sanctions
The Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, who is a member of the Senate’s Republican Party, promised last week to introduce legislation sanctioning Canada in response to what his office referred to as “wildfire pollution emergencies.”
According to the text of the Canada Fire Act posted on Moreno’s website, Trump has the authority to decide if any smoke from Canada in the past 12 months made its way into the U.S.
The bill has not yet been introduced in the Senate but if it is declared as such, there will be stiff penalties for all Canadian officials involved with wildfire management, including the Prime Minister and lower level officials.
These penalties include stopping loans to Canadian-owned entities, stopping imports of products produced by Canadian government owned companies and banning officials from entering the U.S.
The legislation, as an interim measure asks U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio, to take into consideration removing Canada’s ambassador and chief of mission, along with more than 12 other officials, including the spokesperson for the Canadian embassy.

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According to the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to double Canadian oil exports to the United States last year as part of an upcoming trade agreement.
Pete Hoekstra said, at a Monday conference in Edmonton, that Carney had made his pitch at an October 7, 2025 meeting at the White House. Hoekstra claimed that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, were both eager to accept the offer, but President Donald Trump stopped them.
Carney tried to negotiate a deal with Mr. Trump in order to reduce or eliminate his tariffs against Canadian autos, steel, and aluminum. The talks ended without a deal, after Mr. Trump left the table over an Ontario government anti-tariff ad.
Hoekstra stated that Carney offered Canada between 3 and 4 million barrels more oil each day. This would be roughly twice the current level.
In an interview on stage with Gary Mar, former Alberta cabinet member, at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region Conference, Mr. Hoekstra stated that “the Prime Minister suggested, as part of the preliminary trade agreement,” Canada was willing to send three to four millions barrels to the United States. Additional barrels were also sent to the United States. The President had to restrain Secretary Wright and Doug Burgum because they wanted more oil from Canada.
Hoekstra stated that Mr. Trump had to tell them “that crawling across and shaking Carney’s hand was not necessarily the best negotiation strategy.” He also advised that they “show some restraint and that we have other options.”
The Prime Minister’s Office didn’t immediately respond to M. Hoekstra’s remarks.
Canada accounts for almost two thirds of American crude oil imports. The U.S.’s trade deficit with Ottawa is largely due to Washington’s dependence on Canadian crude oil, which Trump often complains about.
Hoekstra, however, said that it was a good idea to increase the U.S. imports of oil from Canada.
Canada is one of the most reliable sources of oil in the world. We have been sourcing oil there for the past two decades. The people we work with in Alberta, who are excellent business partners and good businesspeople, live close to us, he added. He also said that the U.S. wanted to import more crude oil, and that “Saskatchewan and Alberta would probably be the best regions to supply more oil to America.”
The Canadian oil company South Bow, which is a joint venture between the U.S. and Canada’s Bridger pipelines, has also stated that they believe the proposed project will move forward. This would create a new route for Canadian crude being sent to the U.S.
He said: “I am optimistic that both pipes, one going south and the other going north will meet at the border. They’ll be in the same spot.”
In April, Mr. Trump signed the permit to proceed with the project. However, it must be approved by state regulators.
South Bow, a Calgary-based company, has announced that it has received the support of oil shippers in its proposal to build a 550,000 barrel per day pipeline from Canada across the border into America. The pipeline would then feed another pipeline being planned by Bridger Pipeline LLC. South Bow anticipates making a final decision about the investment in the project by the middle of the year 2027.
Mr. Carney tried unsuccessfully for much of last years to come to an agreement with Mr. Trump in order to reduce the worst effects of President Trump’s Trade War. In the end, Trump ended negotiations. Both countries have resumed their talks in the spring, but little progress has been made.
Hoekstra is one of Trump’s loudest representatives in the international arena. The Globe and Mail reported that shortly after Ontario’s anti tariff ad was released, Mr. Hoekstra shouted and cursed at David Paterson at an Ottawa dinner.

Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister and other Canadian officials congratulated Andy Burnham on his new position as Prime Minister of Great Britain. They also suggested areas where both countries could improve their relations.
Burnham became the British Prime Minister for the 7th time in 10 years, and 5th in 4 years.
Carney congratulated Burnham via a statement.
The statement read: “I am looking forward to working together with Prime Minister Burnham in order to create greater stability, security and prosperity both on the Atlantic side as well as the other.”
Carney named trade, “building stronger defense industries and supply chain” and other specific issues that Canada and Britain can work together on.
Canada will raise Defence, Security and Resilience Bank
Burnham replaces Kier Starmer, the former UK Defence, Security and Resilience Bank member who had decided to withdraw the U.K. from the DSRB.
The DSRB, a multilateral organization focused on funding defence and security projects in NATO member nations and allied countries. The headquarters for the new institution will be located in Canada.
Bill Blair, Canada’s U.K. Ambassador and a former Defence Minister, said to CBC News that he was looking forward working with Burnham’s government, and that he expected Carney would raise the DSRB issue with the British Prime Minister.
He said: “We are prepared to work closely with the United Kingdom. We believe that the United Kingdom’s participation in DSRB is beneficial for all its members.”
Blair spoke at the Farnborough Air Show, a biennial event in the U.K. where several Canadian ministers were also present.
Melanie Joly also said at a press conference that Canada and Britain could develop closer defense ties. She also said that both countries should do more to promote trade.
The Canadian Parliament passed a bill this spring ratifying the U.K.’s joining of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.
After Brexit, a temporary deal on trade was reached. However, talks to reach a permanent agreement were put off until early 2024. The sticking point remains U.K. beef and dairy products.
Joly stated, “We believe that Canada and U.K. share a long history of ties. We also feel that our commerce can be expanded even further.” The U.K. ranks third in Canada’s list of trading partners. “We have a Free Trade Agreement together but can do more.”
New PM faces many challenges
Burnham is regarded as the best communicator in the Labour Party, but he also faces the same issues as his predecessor. These include a slowing economy, rising costs of living due to the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, and an overstretched government.
He promised Britons that they would have “some breathing room now” and said the government will set forth some measures for tackling the high cost-of-living, as well as how it intends to finance them.
Starmer led Labour to an election victory in mid-2024, as it more than doubled the number of seats it had five years prior. However, its vote share only increased by two percentage points. Starmer’s two-year tenure in office was marred by mistakes and poor judgment that damaged his reputation with both his party and public.