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A legal bargain over the gasoline shock
The number that moved Washington on February 23, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 23, 2026
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The number that moved Washington on February 23, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 23, 2026
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