Canada Catch-All | Trump threatens bridge opening

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altmin said:
People are already worrying about a thin Donbas like excuse for a US invasion up here.
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I would first worry about the regime supporting an armed militia insurrection. followed by US military support for the “crimes against humanity committed by the Canadian government”.
 
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🎁 —> The United States Is Once Again Canada’s Biggest Threat
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“… The history of the United States coveting Canadian territory goes back to the earliest days of the country itself. In 1774, the nascent Continental Congress in Philadelphia wrote a letter to Canadians, claiming that they were a “small people” and inviting them to join the burgeoning efforts to throw off British control. The invitation came laced with menace, saying that Canadians should consider whether they wanted “all the rest of North-America [as] your unalterable friends, or your inveterate enemies.” If Canadians declined to join American colonists, they would be, the letter added, “conquered into liberty.”

Nor was this some kind of fringe position. “The Unanimous Voice of the Continent is Canada must be ours,” future U.S. President John Adams wrote in 1776. “Quebec must be taken.” Benjamin Franklin likewise eyed Canada as future U.S. territory; as Canadian historian Madelaine Drohan discovered, Franklin pushed for either forced assimilation or outright eviction of French Canadians (who were then nearly the entirety of the European colonial population in Canada), with the United States then reigning over all of British North America.

Of course, these early positions were all for naught. U.S. forces launched a disastrous assault on Quebec, undone by both poor strategy and smallpox alike. Franklin’s attempts to seize Canada during resulting negotiations with Britain also failed. As Adams himself wrote, “Alass Canada! We have found Misfortune and disgrace in that Quarter.”…”
 

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge, poised to become the newest border crossing between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit.

"I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve," Trump wrote in the post on Monday.

CBC News has asked the White House for further clarification.

Trump made the threat amid a 299-word post in which he said Canada has treated the U.S. "very unfairly for decades," complained that the bridge was built "with virtually no U.S. content" and repeated his criticism of Prime Minister Mark Carney "wanting to make a trade deal with China."

"With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset," he wrote.

The $6.4 billion cost of the Gordie Howe bridge has been entirely funded by Canada's federal government, but the bridge is under the public joint ownership of Canada and the state of Michigan.

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Trump endorsed the bridge as a priority project in 2017, issuing a joint statement with then-prime minister Justin Trudeau calling it a "vital economic link between our two countries."
 
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