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The president of United States (USA), Donald Trump, continues to open controversies daily, especially with Canada. The latest was to threaten its neighbors with blocking the opening of a border bridge that was intended to link Detroit with Ontario, from Michigan.
The Republican leader has been especially belligerent, demanding from his Truth Social social network economic compensation from Canada to allow its opening.
“I will not allow this bridge to open until the US receivesfull compensation for everything we have given you and, furthermore, until Canada treats us with the justice and respect that we deserve,” Trump said about an infrastructure that will be named after the Canadian ice hockey legend. Gordie Howe.
In the same message, he demanded that the Canadian government begin negotiations to resolve the conflict: “We will begin negotiations, IMMEDIATELY,” he exclaimed.
The US president also suggested that Washington should have a stake in the engineering work. “With all that we have given them, we should possess, perhaps,at least half of this asset”, he stressed in the same message.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge will link the American city of Detroit, in the state of Michigan, with Windsor, in Ontario, Canada. According to the US Department of Transportation, this work will become one of the main enclaves for bilateral trade between both states.
The border bridge will have six lanes and will span 1.5 miles over the Detroit River. Its construction began in 2018 and its estimated cost amounts to 4.7 billion dollars.funded entirely by the Canadian government and will be jointly owned by the Canadian government and the state of Michigan.
The press secretary of the governor of Michigan, Stacey LaRouche, has responded to Trump’s words on social networks, pointing out that the project “was paid for by Canada, built by unionized workers from both countries and that it will be jointly operated“.
In addition, he has confirmed that the Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, hopes to attend its opening.
Trump’s statements come amid strong economic disagreements between the US and Canada, with Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on exports, especially due to the growing rapprochement between Ottawa and Beijing.
At the Davos Forum held last January, there was a strong disagreement between both leaders, which led Trump to warn Mark CarneyCanadian Prime Minister, if he continued to explore the possibility of reaching out to China.
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