The Detroit-based trucking family that has owned and operated the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor since the 1970s appears to have found powerful backing for their business interests.
The billionaire head of that family is Matthew Moroun. He made a million-dollar campaign donation to MAGA Inc. back in January, according to campaign finance reports. In early February, Trump pushed back on the opening of the bridge, saying on Feb. 9 that he would block it.
Donald Trump has made the Gordie Howe International Bridge into a big, beautiful monument to the futility of trying to jointly advance the economic interests of his country and ours.
There are so many reasons for Canadians to be furious about Trump blocking the bridge’s opening: the pain to industries that need a faster crossing at the Windsor-Detroit border, the trucks forced to continue thundering through urban communities, the complete contempt for the fact that we financed the whole thing.
On July 1, Canada, the United States and Mexico begin the first formal review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). For most Canadians, it may seem like another bureaucratic milestone. For the agri-food sector, however, it could shape investment, food prices and trade flows for years to come.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said a deal on CUSMA will ultimately happen between him and U.S. President Donald Trump, despite teams of negotiators on both sides working through trade issues.
“Ultimately… a breakthrough, if you will, on this will…be at that level,” Carney told reporters on Thursday, in answer to a question about whether a deal will ultimately be secured at the leadership level of both countries.
OTTAWA — Broadcasters and online streaming giants will still have to pay a fee to support Canadian media production despite the Carney government’s declaration it would reverse course on the so-called “Netflix tax,” the Star has learned.
Amid ongoing Canada-U.S. trade tensions, Prime Minister Mark Carney said three weeks ago his government would order Canada’s broadcast regulator to review its decision this spring to require major broadcasters and online streaming giants to pay 15 per cent, up from five per cent, of their Canadian revenues toward supporting Canadian content production.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was caught on a hot mic speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump on June 16 justifying Chinese EV imports. “Less than 3 per cent of our market, 49,000 cars,” Mr. Carney said on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in France. “It’s a cap, we capped, a hard line … I thought you’d actually like that.”
Mr. Trump does like it, Mr. Carney told reporters later.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington is signalling growing impatience with Ottawa’s delays on its F-35 purchase and broader defence reset.
U.S. defence officials applauded Canada’s 2022 selection of Lockheed Martin’s stealth fighter, and the plan to buy 88 of the U.S.-made jets, but political debate and shifting priorities have left only 30 under contract so far.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand refused to say whether Chinese-made electric vehicles could be banned under new federal legislation targeting products linked to forced labour, despite evidence that some Chinese auto supply chains rely on materials connected to Uyghur labour camps.
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With less than two weeks to go until the formal review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, one thing has become clear: There will be no 16-year extension of the trade treaty on July 1.
Mexico and the U.S. have already scheduled a third round of negotiations for late July, three weeks after the review date. Canada and the U.S. have yet to even start formal negotiations.
Donald Trump himself can’t seem to make up his mind about the agreement he signed in his first term. “I’d rather leave it unsigned, I’d rather have it terminated,” the U.S. President told reporters this week at the G7 conference in Evian-les-Bains, France. “But I may sign it.”
According to Wiktionary, a “mixed message” is “communication that contains contradictory, inconsistent, or unclear information, making it difficult for the receiver to understand the sender’s true intent, thoughts, or feelings.” If that be so, then Mark Carney’s recent “hot mic” moment at this week’s G7 summit and Melanie Joly’s (almost) simultaneous announcement she was heading to China to drum up some auto business might be the very definition of getting your wires crossed.
In late May, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had a “maple MAGA” moment. Speaking before the Economic Club of New York, Carney claimed that “Canada Strong will help make America great again,” combining his own political slogan with U.S. President Donald Trump’s.
Painting Canada as a reliable supplier of energy and critical minerals and as a partner in an integrated North American auto market, he noted that “the examples are legion where we should work together and compete with the world together.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has sounded off once again about his country’s three-way trade deal with Canada and Mexico, this time musing about the agreement “expiring immediately.”
Trump spoke about the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) in response to a reporter’s questions Wednesday at Orly Airport near Paris, on his way back from the G7 Summit.
Each of the three countries must declare by July 1 whether they want to extend CUSMA beyond its 2036 expiry date.
🚨 BREAKING: President Donald Trump says he wants CUSMA (USMCA) TERMINATED.
The Americans are fed up with Canada taking advantage of them.
pic.twitter.com/cPyFxPPKzy— mistersunshinebaby (@mrsunshinebaby) June 17, 2026
I don’t think Carney wants a renewal any more than Trump.
Carney would rather see us become chattel of the EU and or China whichever is more profitable.
OTTAWA — American concerns over Canadian energy exports, dairy access and booze bans are among nearly a dozen trade irritants at the heart of intense, high-stakes talks with President Donald Trump, the Star has learned, two weeks before the North American free trade pact comes up for review.
The United States’ list of cross-border demands includes complaints about specific trade irritants and, more broadly, sectors where the Trump administration expects Ottawa to make proposals to help protect American and continental economic and national security.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he had several informal discussions with U.S. President Donald Trump during the G7 summit in France, despite not having an official meeting.
Carney told reporters during the final day of the summit Wednesday that the president only had scheduled bilateral meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
While Macron is the only G7 leader Trump has met with at the G7 so far, he has held bilateral meetings with the leaders of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Is there hope for the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)? For over a year, Canada-U.S. trade talks have been testy at best, in a deep freeze at worst.
U.S. President Donald Trump mocked us as the “51st state,” put tariffs our steel, aluminum and autos, and claimed that America doesn’t need anything we’re selling. Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that Canada must reduce its dependence on the U.S., circled the globe inking foreign trade deals and became the darling of Davos for his vision of “middle power” alliances.
