Campbell Clark/The Globe and Mail: Maybe we should have seen it coming. In 2012, Stephen Harper’s government agreed to pay the whole $6.4-billion cost of the Gordie Howe bridge because the U.S. Congress wouldn’t fund half. The father of the current owner of the Ambassador Bridge, the late Matty Moroun, was a big Republican donor and he didn’t want the competition.
Now, Mr. Trump had disregarded the lopsided deal that was struck then. And you won’t see a lot of Americans complaining their own government is a shameless bully that shook down its neighbour…