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Gordie Howe Bridge Opening Confirmed: Canada Builds a $6 Billion Crossing While President Trump Just Threatened to Tear NAFTA Apart
Canada has confirmed the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge connecting Windsor to Detroit, despite ongoing trade threats from President Trump. The Silicon Review asks: why is Canada investing billions in a crossing to a country that keeps threatening to burn the relationship down? The Gordie Howe Bridge is opening. Canada confirmed it this week. The $6.4 billion crossing will connect Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan. It is the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America. It will carry thousands of trucks and millions of cars every year. And President Donald Trump is furious. The president has spent months threatening to tear up the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. He has imposed tariffs on Canadian lumber, dairy, and auto parts. He has called Canada a "national security threat" to justify trade barriers. He has suggested that the United States does not need Canadian oil, Canadian steel, or Canadian anything. Here is the irony. Canada just built a sixty billion dollar economic lifeline to a country whose president keeps trying to strangle the economy it connects to. That is not partnership. That is building a bridge to a neighbor who keeps setting fire to your front p...
