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As Canada forges ahead on bridge project, trade tensions near a boil
Crain's Detroit Business ^ | July 8, 2018 | Chad Livengood

Posted on 07/09/2018 1:14:31 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

WINDSOR, Ontario — The Canadian government is forging ahead with construction of a new Detroit River bridge designed to enhance trade as economic relations between the longtime trading partners grow strained — and the crossing could become a bargaining chip.

Major construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge is expected to begin this fall once a contract is signed with Bridging North America, the consortium of infrastructure companies chosen last week by the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority to build the bridge.

The long-awaited move toward an official groundbreaking later this month comes as President Donald Trump threatens a tariff on Canadian-assembled vehicles — which he describes as "the big one" — following Canada's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods responding to the 25 percent duty Trump imposed on foreign steel and aluminum.

Adding to the international tensions is the billionaire Moroun family, owners of the Ambassador Bridge and longtime foes of the Canadian government who are egging on a nationalistic president to pull the plug on a permit for the bridge, which Canada sees as a top national priority for the future of its auto industry.

The Morouns' Detroit International Bridge Co. has been airing Fox News television ads in just the Washington, D.C., market, seemingly aimed at an audience of one — the celebrity-billionaire-turned-president. The commercials ask him to withdraw the U.S. permit needed to build the Gordie Howe bridge.

They're also lobbying for Trump to get Canada to drop its stipulation that the Morouns tear down the Ambassador Bridge if they build a replacement span. That matter could be injected into renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

(Excerpt) Read more at crainsdetroit.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 5thamendment; canada; construction; detroit; eminentdomain; infrastructure; mattymoroun; michigan; ontario; p3; ppp; trade; tradewar; transportation; trump; windsor
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To: MarMema

I really don’t like your comments. I think by broad brushing all Canadians the way you have is like how some people in New York hack up Texans.

I would encourage you to stop it. The country is free, for the most part business oriented and for the most part a good neighbor to the USA, including Michigan.

Does it have it’s fair share of left leaning people just like the USA? Yes. But don’t try and tell me it has an entire nation of left leaning people that you don’t like. That is just not true.


21 posted on 07/09/2018 4:51:52 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: heshtesh

I’ve heard Canadians bad mouth Windsor.


22 posted on 07/09/2018 5:35:00 AM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: MarMema

I agree with you, I have had similar interactions with Canadians.


23 posted on 07/09/2018 5:41:19 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: VanDeKoik

Canadians in Ontario dislike Americans because those they come in contact with most are from New York


24 posted on 07/09/2018 5:42:56 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In August our cities will be burning))
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Trudeau strikes me as being a lightweight”

True and my prediction was that we would find out he is a closet perv.


25 posted on 07/09/2018 5:49:29 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Candor7

You are correct. Once you get away from Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver the Canadians you meet are not anti-American whack jobs.


26 posted on 07/09/2018 5:55:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

As a Canadian who has been both sides of the border and worked with Americans a lot, let me apologise for our left-wing, smug, anti-US, holier-than-thou leftists.

Unfortunately they get far more air-time than the rest of us who appreciate and love our neighbours to the south. It causes me great pain to have to endure the bullsh*t rhetoric of our own left, who are just as crazy as yours. Possibly ours are even dumber.


27 posted on 07/09/2018 6:32:45 AM PDT by Hildawgs Taint
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Was t this bridge supposed to be part of that UN, trans-national superhighway that was supposed to connect S. America and N. America? I remember the New American writing about a lot it in the 90s.


28 posted on 07/09/2018 7:30:03 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: FrdmLvr

Having lived in the Detroit area I can tell you that a new bridge IS needed. The traffic tie-ups at the existing bridge and tunnel sometimes back-up onto city streets for many blocks.


29 posted on 07/09/2018 7:51:48 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: heshtesh
Canada has been hateful to Michiganders

Gordie Howe's wife WAS a Michigander.

Irony: The Mark of Quality Literature


30 posted on 07/09/2018 7:52:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yes, I do realize that, living in metro Detroit myself, nevertheless, I have been wondering about those international superhighways - corridors - I think they were called.


31 posted on 07/09/2018 9:47:33 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: OrangeHoof

I love your ideas. Gordie Howe, RIP, most awesome ever.


32 posted on 07/09/2018 10:29:41 AM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: Paladin2

I’ve been to the “Windsor Ballet”.


33 posted on 07/09/2018 10:30:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MarMema

Still wish they’d named it after Bob Probert, since he was from Windsor originally.


34 posted on 07/09/2018 10:32:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: VanDeKoik

They flood northern Michigan during the summer. And always let us know how superior they are when they are here. We get tons of tourists here from all over the country, even in the winter. We greatly prefer the Texans who for some reason supply us with the most tourists.


35 posted on 07/09/2018 10:33:02 AM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: heshtesh

Thanks for making my point for me.


36 posted on 07/09/2018 10:43:33 AM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: Hildawgs Taint

Is your Left still riddled with American draft dodgers from the Vietnam War era?


37 posted on 07/09/2018 10:48:58 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Candor7

I think WE should put a 270% tariff on Canada’s dairy products, like the one they have on ours, and listen to them squeal.


38 posted on 07/09/2018 10:57:47 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They're also lobbying for Trump to get Canada to drop its stipulation that the Morouns tear down the Ambassador Bridge if they build a replacement span.

I'd tell that family they can go pound sand.

39 posted on 07/09/2018 11:43:43 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I think WE should put a 270% tariff on Canada’s dairy products, like the one they have on ours, and listen to them squeal.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I agree.


40 posted on 07/09/2018 3:13:20 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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