Prime Minister Mark Carney admitted doing a bad job of explaining how the deal to pay the United States to open the new bridge between Ontario and Michigan works, conceding that it means giving the U.S. government a share of proceeds before putting anything toward the debt Canada took on to finance the multibillion-dollar project. “I should have been clear,” Carney said Thursday, after meeting provincial premiers in Charlottetown. (The Logic)

Talking point: There are two separate bridge agreements (one with Michigan, one new one with the U.S. federal government), and Carney seemed to conflate them when he said, falsely, on July 12 that the U.S. gets a cut only after debt payments are factored in. Ontario Premier Doug Ford stepped in to praise Carney for finding a way to open the bridge after President Donald Trump intervened to stop it—“It’s critical for all manufacturers that this bridge gets opened,” Ford said. Following fresh Trump tariff threats this week, Canada organized an opening ceremony Friday without American participation.