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Colby Cosh: Why Mark Carney felt comfortable spreading misinformation
The prime minister must have known that media would go easy on his falsifiable story about the Gordie Howe International Bridge deal
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Readers of the Post will notice a careful, measured column Thursday morning that discusses the U.S. government’s last-minute shakedown of Canada over the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting the two countries; the bridge is scheduled to open Monday. Columnist Rob Breakenridge stops just short of calling the prime minister a liar, but asks why he was “making claims about the deal” just a few days ago “that would inevitably be disproven and discredited” when the details came out, as they did on Wednesday?
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I am afraid I know the answer: the prime minister anticipated that flatly false statements, statements he must have known to be........