Corruption: The Real Reason Trump Won’t Allow the Gordie Howe Bridge to Open?
- Mocha Bezirgan
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced yesterday that he will not permit the opening of the new international bridge spanning the Michigan River.
The P3 project is several years late and has seen billions of dollars in cost overruns. It not only has the hallmarks of bid rigging, collusion, and antitrust breaches, but also involved the Canadian government allowing some of the most notoriously corrupt construction giants to participate in the procurement process, such as SNC-Lavalin, VINCI, and ACS Infrastructure.
On top of all that, the procurement and the early stages of the project were overseen by Canadian politicians with direct ties to Sikh extremists, namely affiliates of the World Sikh Organization (WSO), whose executives have a long history of proximity to violence and terrorism.
In this video report, I summarize my initial report from February 11, 2024, where I interviewed industry expert and whistleblower Bob Rai, who provided me with evidence he compiled over more than a decade, and Dr. Gary Botting, a double-PhD, former criminal defence lawyer, and leading expert on extradition law. Dr. Botting complimented Mr. Rai’s research skills, saying it warrants an investigation by authorities, and outlined that the U.S. does have standing to prosecute and extradite those involved in the project if it deems the allegations to be prima facie.
The cost of the project, which is being absorbed entirely by Canadian taxpayers, is about $7 billion, but according to a 2018 study by Toronto professor Eric Miller, it could take the bridge more than 61 years to pay off its debt, with total taxpayer subsidies ranging from $14 billion to $52 billion over the life of the project.
Amarjeet Sohi, a former suspected Khalistani terrorist who was jailed in India, and who has faced credible allegations of corruption involving his family and election donors’ firm in another P3 project, was the infrastructure minister who oversaw most of the procurement process, including key stages such as the selection of the preferred bidder for the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project. Sohi hired a WSO executive’s son, as an assistant at the time, while the other son was hired as director of operations by Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, whose father was also a WSO executive. Navdeep Bains, another minister whose decision-making had influence over the project, was himself a WSO executive.
The question arises how much influence the WSO, an extremist organization with a history of condoning violence, may have had over Canadian politics and, in turn, over the project.