Ontario Premier Doug Ford has come out swinging after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to block the opening of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge linking Windsor and Detroit.
Trump took to his Truth Social network to demand that the bridge not open until the United States owns “at least one half” of the bridge and the revenue it generates.
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with the president on the situation this week, and explained that Canada spent $4 billion on the bridge and that its ownership is shared between Canada and the state of Michigan.
Premier Ford says President Trump’s assertion that the bridge was built with “no U.S. content” is not true.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford (CPAC)
“Seventy-five per cent yes, were Canadian steel and concrete because we’re paying for it. Twenty-five per cent was U.S. steel and concrete, and the interchange going on from the Michigan side was all American steel, all American concrete. So again, there’s fiction where President Trump says, and then there’s true facts that people can look up.”
Ford says the bridge will open, because it has to. He says if Trump wants to fix things, then he has to drop the tariffs.
“He’s hurting the American people and the American economy,” says Ford.
