Blockade of bridge between Canada and Detroit by protesters forces shutdown of a Ford plant and begins to have broader implications for the North American auto industry
Canada threatens to arrest trucker-led protesters who have shut down central Ottawa and disrupted cross-border trade in anger at Covid rules, as PM Trudeau slams the movement as"unacceptable."
The blockade by people mostly in pickup trucks entered its third day on Wednesday at the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. The bridge carries 25 percent of all trade between the two countries, and Canadian authorities expressed increasing worry about the economic effects. "This interruption on the Detroit-Windsor bridge hurts customers, auto workers, suppliers, communities and companies on both sides of the border," Ford said in a statement.
"The reality is that vaccine mandates, and the fact that Canadians stepped up to get vaccinated to almost 90 percent, ensured that this pandemic didn't hit as hard here in Canada as elsewhere in the world," Trudeau said in Parliament. As for the Ambassador Bridge blockade, Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens said police had not removed people for fear of inflaming the situation. "I'll be brutally honest: You are trying to have a rational conversation, and not everyone on the ground is a rational actor," Dilkens said.
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