After spending a few more hours making the rounds at the Calgary Stampede on Sunday, Prime Minister Mark Carney will be going off the radar today, according to his office, but before ducking out of the spotlight, he offered a few more details on the last-minute cross-border deal to end the standoff over the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge during an interview with CTV Calgary reporter Tara Nelson, CP24 reports.

“The word ‘net’ does a lot of work in this,” Carney noted.

“We are sharing after Canada is paid back, so we get the revenues. Then the servicing of the costs of the bridge and paying the debt of the bridge, and then what’s left over, there’s a split of that for 15 years,” but in the “initial years,” as “traffic builds up … there’s not going to be a lot of net to split,” he pointed out.

That explanation likely won’t be enough to reassure Conservative MP Shuv Majumdar, who, in his new role as lead critic on Canada – U.S. relations, wrote to Canada – U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc to “demand answers” on what he describes as a “terrible deal for Canada”

The letter, which was co-signed by fellow Conservative MPs Eric Duncan, Kathy Borrelli, Dave Epp, Chris Lewis and Stephanie Kusie, and released via X on Sunday, challenges LeBlanc to “release the full agreement” before the scheduled opening of the bridge on July 27, and “provide Canadians with a complete accounting of what was given away, what was received, and the true cost of the deal.”

Meanwhile, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin joins representatives of the Manitou Asinîy-Iniskim-Tsa Xani Centre (MAITX), as well as her fellow front bencher, Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski, in Elk Island National Park to share the details on what the advisory is billing as a “historic agreement” between Parks Canada and the First Nations-led MAITX following the signing of a “letter of intent” last fall to “collaboratively explore options to establish a permanent home for the Manitou Asinîy (the Manitou Stone)” within the park, “where it will remain under the care and custody of Indigenous Peoples.” (9:30 a.m. MDT)

Back in Montreal, Secretary of State (Nature) Nathalie Provost delivers a fresh tranche of federal support for the city’s iconic Biosphère — which, as the website notes, “was designed by noted American architect Buckminster Fuller” as the United States pavilion at Expo 67, and now serves as a museum “entirely devoted to the links between society and the environment” — during a morning appearance alongside Quebec labour minister Jean Boulet and Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough mayor Stéphanie Valenzuela. (9 a.m.)

Elsewhere in the city, Health Minister Marjorie Michel and Quebec social services minister Lionel Carmant will announce new measures to boost “youth mental health” throughout the province during a morning visit to Aire Ouverte Montréal-Nord-Lacordaire, which offers confidential, free mental health and wellness support. (11 a.m.)

Rounding out the roster, Secretary of State (International Trade) Randeep Sarai starts the week on his political home turf in Surrey, B.C., where he’ll tour an unnamed local business to highlight a new “investment” that will “help Surrey businesses diversify their exports, grow locally and compete globally,” according to the advisory, which notes that media attending the event “are required to wear closed-toe shoes and will be provided with reflective vests and safety goggles.” (10 a.m. PT)

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