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VIDEO: In a protest transcending national boundaries, hundreds of Detroiters and Canadians came out Saturday to voice their displeasure with Trump
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I am so glad I was there to see this. Some of my best friends are in the US. My mum’s husband is from Detroit. Looking across the border and seeing my flag is something I will NEVER forget.
Do all border states have this special relationship with Canada? With the recent news it has felt like a total gut punch watching Canada be attacked/disparaged.
Detroit is one of the largest commercial crossings with Canada in the entire nation. You likely see a few Ontario plates regularly on the road, especially around a costco or target.
The Ambassador Bridge in Windsor/Detroit facilitates more trade than the US's entire balance of trade with South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, the UK, India, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, France, Brazil, etc etc.
I match with girls from Windsor on the apps and sometimes they even come over to the ol USA to get to know me. Last year they wanted to immigrate now not so much lol!
I have had Canadian coworkers who crossed daily for work.
I do see a lot of Canadian plates out and about for sure.
Canadians even come across the border for school. My Univeristy was in Detroit, and I had Canadians in some classes that drove across the border every day.
I grew up in a Detroit burb and my favorite music teacher lived in Canada and would drive the tunnel every day to come teach us. he is one of the very few teachers I vividly remember by name because of how nice he was.
We have a fair number of Canadian flags flying in WNY. I have a lot of Canadian friends, and served with Canadians a long time ago, so these come-lately scumbags betraying our allies in the name of the USA has me frostier than ever.
And likewise on the Canadian side. My province borders ND, it's an hour from grand forks to the border then another hour on the Canadian side to Winnipeg, the main city. It's just small towns and farms over that 2hr drive otherwise. That's not to say we didn't use to drive over often, but no more. And the relationship was definitely not like detroit/Windsor where you can literally see one another across the water.
TONS of French Canadian families in Maine. You go up northern Maine and every business is “Pelletier’s” or “Bouchard’s” or “Oullette’s.” Hell, even in southern Maine my grandma took her school all in French. Canadians are one of Old Orchard Beach Maine’s biggest customer base
We love our neighbors. The tariffs against them are wrong.
Edit Based on Canadian Response : We as the US, do not want to annex Canada at all. We deeply respect the country and the people, our neighbors, who reside there.
No need to be sorry. I get what you're after but everything I see from American media correlates our rage with something it isn't.
We have an election going on here and the main issue everyone is campaigning on is Canadian sovereignty.
Do yanks think Canadians are booing the us anthem at hockey games because of a tax? Nah, bro. It's because the safety of our families has been threatened.
Never in my life did I think I'd have to worry about this but all of a sudden everyone is interested in my ability to build drones....
None of us actually take his annexation threat seriously over here. It’s so stupid and embarrassing we don’t even want to bring it up. It’s like how he swore he would build a southern border wall and Mexico would pay for it. He accomplished creating a little performative fence that is open on both ends and therefore does nothing and that’s about it. He’s not getting his grubby hands on Canada or Greenland. We aren’t a full dictatorship yet. He would have to get congress to sign off on that and it will never happen.
While this administration does have more teeth than his first go around, I don’t think Canada is in any danger of being annexed and if it came to that, a LOT of Americans would be applying for refugee status so we can fight for you.
I have way more loyalty to Canada than the US. All my non-immediate family live there but I visit more for vacation and recreation than to visit relatives. Everything is better over there, including the snacks. I’m going out of my way to visit Windsor more to spend money there.
Half the people I work with are Canadian. The auto industry is so interconnected we don’t even know or care about the stupid nonsense of the trump administration. Now the wings - leafs on the other hand we take that seriously
Beautiful. This is why he wants to divide us-he is grossly outnumbered. Its also why the 51st state bs will never happen. Its strictly meant to divide all you cool smart people!
A lot of Michigan's thumb eastern border is like that. I live by the other bridge and our communities are linked like separate towns rather than counties. My wife plays hockey in Canada, I have relatives in Ontario, they used to come over and keep our retail alive, and Sarnia has good Indian food. Hell, in elementary school we celebrated Canada Day and would sing their anthem. This entire situation is the dumbest shit.
It's interesting how Debbie Dingell went off during a town hall attacking a participant asking about Dana Nessel's actions criminalizing campus protests, saying that holding Dana Nessel accountable amounts to a "circular firing squad," but I'm sure she's fine with Slotkin attacking the party's few center-left members like Bernie and AOC.
this isn’t about a political party, it’s about our country, and Canada and our state! What trump is doing is hurting us all!!! unless you’re a billionaire 😯
I was at the rally on the Canadian side. There were a lot of people there. My guess is maybe 300 or more. People I know posted pictures and I didn’t even know they were there.
The city of Windsor has a population of 236,000. It’s not a small town and it’s a center of the Canadian auto industry and a major manufacturing and trade center for the entire province and Canada. It’s insulting to say Windsor is like “Big Rapids”
We love you Canada! 🇨🇦 it’s a long and very remote drive from where I am, but wouldn’t it be cool If as Alaskans we drove to the Canada border just to wave hello and arrange a little protest as well?
I wish I could have been there but didn’t hear about it until after it happened. It is very hard keeping track of protests in the state when there isn’t a set location to access them. Glad to see the turnout was great in both sides
Keep it up, All! Ppl have said that protesting isnt effective or enough, but everytime I see or read about another protest, it helps curb the hopelessness that trump and musk want us to feel. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙏
It’s cute to do this, but this doesn’t materially change or threaten any decision-maker’s viewpoint. You’d be better off doing this outside John James’ office.
You should be protesting the crime and trying to figure out how to stop the mass exodus from your city. Bunch of paid actors and everyone knows it. I used to be on your guys side until I found out how fake it all was. Many of us were
Tariffs can work if implemented strategically. But the way Trump had been using them is absolutely stupid lol. I mean, he’s put tariffs on the parts to BUILD cars, not just the cars themselves. That fucks with our ability to MAKE the damn things, driving up costs, and generally ceding markets to foreign car companies. Also, auto industy isn’t gonna spend billions of dollars to bring manufacturing to the States where labor is expensive and it will take YEARS to build enough factories to make up for the ones they left behind overseas. Those kinds of industries don’t just pop up overnight, you know. It makes no goddamn sense, and the auto industry has said as much. Trump lied to you, man. His tariffs aren’t helping anyone, and he’s too stubborn and dumb to admit it.
I disagree, but at least you have an actual an argument why they will not work.
I believe and already seen a huge ( verbally) investment into the US. The foreign automakers have to bring more manufacturing into the US to competes with the tariffs.
If Canada removes their Tariffs on US goods, US will remove ours. They aren’t going to because it’s their revenue stream in more ways than one.
If the tariffs work and I think they will, we could see an economic boom on gigantic proportions.
We saw US towns completely wiped out when they when automotive moved manufacturing to Mexico. Generations of families gone.
Look at other manufacturing that have left the country and went to china. All that is going to come back because of the tariffs.
Ah yes, benefit them by raising prices on parts needed to build cars, therefore increasing prices on cars that people already can't afford, leading to layoffs.
The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.
Should Americans simply accept Trump destroying our country without any resistance? Seems cowardly. Even if the protests don't stop the fascist takeover, at least the people participating will be able to live with themselves once the regime falls.
Lost 2 brothers a dad and a nephew in the last few years....all this shit going on in the world don't matter...doesn't...spend time with your family cause that all that will care that you're gone....all that protest shit don't matter....how's your relationshio with your kids / parents??? They don't last forever..
First, I am sorry you had to experience so much loss in such a short time. My heart truly goes out to you.
Secondly, it may not matter to you, but there are many people in Michigan (including me) who have family on both sides of the border. If myself and others aren't willing to stand up, what then? If they were to close the border, I just don't get to spend time with family anymore? How is that even okay?
What is this resisting though? It’s just a bunch of people wanting to feel good about not really doing anything? What are they actually protesting? Who was supposed to take notice? Did they notice?
Obviously, though, if you value freedom and believe all human life has inherent value and dignity, you'd be on the streets already! Don't let the magas scare you into silence!
Right, and the article says it’s a protest for their displeasure with Trump, then went on to list like 10 things. They didn’t shut anything down, there wasn’t a clear message, just “here’s a couple hundred people that are angry” at the president for myriad reasons.
Was he in a meeting at the RenCen or something where he might even notice this? I’m not going to waste my time protesting nothing.
Get involved in organizing the protests if you think you have productive ideas to make them more effective, but just know that protesting probably isn't going to stop the fascism, it just means you actually faught and gave it all you can.
If you survive the regime, at least when it falls you can live with yourself knowing you didn't roll over and cower in fear.
What are you doing to fight this regime? It seems like you're wasting energy that could be used to resist fascism by criticizing people doing the only thing they can to stand up for themselves.
I’m voting for people that I think would be effective leaders in things I believe in on both a local and national level. I’m also leaving voicemails, texts and emails with my elected officials and engaging with them, not shouting into the void about everything and nothing.
if you were against facicim, you would be protesting the Dem party....instead, you are attempting to protest the only party creating American jobs, getting investments in America and bring manufacturing back to America.
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