Juno News (Video): The Gordie Howe International Bridge opening has been delayed indefinitely.
It is the latest setback in Canada’s bumpy relationship with the United States. The Gordihow International Bridge opening has been delayed indefinitely as the two countries resolve some outstanding issues. Well, at the at the request of the United States, we agreed to uh uh to delay the opening and um take the necessary time uh to resolve outstanding issues. A few issues uh that have been raised and uh this is a collaborative approach. As I said yesterday, there’s there’s not great drama here. We’re going to work through uh some some issues that uh have come up. Um and you know for a bridge Um that is going to be in place and serve Canadians, Americans um others uh for uh decades uh question of a few weeks is time well spent.
Irony.
Gordie Howe’s signature “elbows up” technique became both a hockey tactic and a symbol of Canadian resilience.
Not sure resilience is the word I’d use.
You spelled retardedness wrong.
I thought it was reptilianism?
there are easier ways to come out as gay and retarded than the method you just chose.
Oh, fer cripe’s sake. I guess my prefacing the sentence with the word Irony wasn’t enough. I should have added SARC.
That, by the way, was the sentence I got when I searched Gordie Howe and elbows up.
Have a nice day.
I suspect the barbs were aimed at elbows up idiotic canucks, not your choice of words.
“I suspect the barbs were aimed at elbows up idiotic canucks, not your choice of words.”
My thoughts as well…Stevie isn’t one of ‘those’ people…
Gordie Howe knew how to be a gentleman even when chivalry seems to have passed.
Murray Howe, at Mr. Hockey’s funeral, eulogised Gordie brilliantly. “He opened a door for a woman and she said ‘I didn’t ask you to do that!’ And he said ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you were a lady.’ ”
That bridge carries a far greater weight of truth than most can comprehend. Carney is like thay “lady”.
Carney’s behaviour has been far classier than Trump’s over this issue. Carney has been polite and restrained, even as Trump has acted like a three year old throwing toys out of the playpen.
So much so that I suspect Carney of being passive aggressive. He may intentionally be trying to undercut Trump by making him look brattish and corrupt by comparison. Mind you, Trump is doing most of the work in that regard.
What a stupid comment. Carney doesn’t have a clue what he is doing. It isn’t about “classier”….it is about getting things done. Carney has done nothing.
What a stupid comment. We’re talking here about the Gordie Howe International Bridge. What do you expect Carney to do about it? He cannot force the US government to man the customs booths.
No, he can’t, and that’s kind of the point.
Nobody gives a shit about “classy” except fart-sniffing urban Liberals play-acting at being “conservative”. Carney has no power here, or anywhere else in these negotiations. Pretending that being “classy” somehow makes up for having no leverage whatsoever is classic Canadian inferiority complex cope.
Another stupid comment. Carney is a blowhard, do nothing puppet. Carney is a joke and Canada is in the pickle it finds itself simply because of that idiot.
Glacierman literally talked about being a gentlement. Take it up with him.
Mr. Ice talked about Carney obviously not being a gentleman. I’m not sure how this makes him the go-to guy when one is calling Carney a blowhard do-nothing puppet. It’s the people calling Carney wonderful that need to speak up.
I expect Carney to make a fair deal with the States, and stop kissing Quebec’s ass. Most of the world has made a fair deal with the States, including China, but our left wing PM chooses to kick the world’s largest free market …right next door…. to the curb, and court communist China 10,000 miles away. Sad, but Canada deserves Carney. I feel for the 25 percent Canadians who truly are conservatives.
Carney is a duplicitous rat.
His idiotic rhetoric is clearly self-serving, and more centered on retaining brain damaged Lieberal voters, than reality.
Nothing about his speeches changed minds. He’s doing nothing more than Liberal Doublespeak. He will fold like a cheap deck of cards, as he has many times bowed to American demands, quickly, when his cult sits down with US negotiators and accepts the deal put at them.
The Liberal miscreants know that without any deal, Canada is KAPUT.
Psst … Canada needs the bridge more than we do. So, the little man in the tailored suit, luxury catering, and socialist speeches is more passively re-gressive than anything else. Canada keeps stepping on their own dikks over BadOrangeMan tariffs. Ouch! That must hurt.
killer unDork S
Here is what Trump is fighting against, altho this is in england, it’s coming here, and to the USA
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-uk-prime-minister-admits-mass-migration-being-weaponized-undermine-western
Go suck a bag of brown dicks in Brampton GYM. The future is now old man.
difference is km, carnage is full of the usual euphemistic blather and b.s.
POTUS is blunt, forthright and to the point conveying *exactly* where he stands.
this approach and interpretation can be applied to pretty much all the media pap about him.
refreshing.
lm autistic. l gave up trying to decipher what peepull *said* vs ‘reading between the lines’
as unnecessary waste of time and fraught with misinterpretation.
the last one they had with that style was Harry S Truman.
“Carney’s behaviour has been far classier than Trump’s over this issue.”
Dude. They really do pay you for this stuff, don’t they?
There is remarkably little coverage of this in the American press, save for local coverage in Michigan. And yet there should be. An American president throttling commerce for purely political purposes is outrageous. This is particulary so given that in the early days, the US federal government was highly supportive of the deal, approving all regulatory hurdles.
Too bad….things change.
They do. Sometimes someone who is completely unsuited to be president gets into power.
The good news is that Trump seems to be deteriorating both physically and mentally. He may have to retire before the end of his term.
You’re TDS is on full display throught this thread.
Iran, Cuba, Israel, iCE, tornados in the US, are among the more pressing issues Trump is dealing with. This bridge is like a toy in a crib, you are correct.
Yes, anyone who objects to Trump’s words and actions is insane. That’s so much easier than defending his horrific behaviour, which is pretty much indefensiible.
Hey KM! Here’s some MORE “horrific Trump behavior” for you to digest
https://www.cnbc.com/markets/pre-markets/
Here’s where I remind you I was BUYING the Trump tariff dip … while you were selling into it. Thanks!
Trump is perfectly suited to be President. Carney is NOT suited to be Prime Minister. Trump is in better mental shape than Carney and probably in better physical shape than the stoop shouldered wimp.
The signs were clear with Biden, and now they’re clear with Trump.
Biden was obviously suffering from dementia, despite the Democrats’ refusal to acknowledge it until it was impossible to deny. Trump is different. He’s getting increasingly emotional and erratic, even paranoid. And his relationship with facts, always tenuous, has now suffered a complete rupture. The idea that the US is getting the short end of the stick with the Gordie Howe International Bridge agreement is just bizarre.
Wow. Now you’ve joined the RED 25th Amendment Brigade. You smell of desperation. You couldn’t RUIN Trump financially. You couldn’t separate Trump from the true American voters who are hanging onto Americas founding principles. Your fake felonies failed. Your multiple assassination attempts failed … so now you desperately cling to the rubbish claim Trump is unhealthy.
You reek of desperation and can no longer formulate coherent arguments. You might want to have your own health checked.
Trump’s physical deterioration is obvious even from his 2nd inaugeration. And his social media activity is just plain weird. What president posts pictures of his face on Mount Rushmore? This guy is more concerned with his image than actually, you know, running the country well.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-truth-social-posts-latest-2676978863
So … “Republicans against Trump” are following and reposting drivel from prominent Bluesky posters? And no … Trump’s social media posts don’t trouble me nearly as much as Obama and Biden’s incessant autopenned posts extolling THEIR virtues.
“They do. Sometimes someone who is completely unsuited to be president gets into power.”
There you go again, derailing another thread with your off-topic nonsense. Joe Biden has *nothing* to do with this thread.
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are you serious?
you think kamalalalalala wd move mountains and bring it all together as opposed to
providing this generations’ standup comedians with endless material?
her and the Donald was the choice and only choice.
lm still convinced he headed off nuclear war in the middle east when he turned the lranian centrifuges into scrap metal
I never supported Harris. Learn to read.
And the Republicans had a choice. They could have nominated someone other than Trump. They would likely have captured an even larger share of the political centre, which decides pretty much every presidential election.
“An American president throttling commerce…” isn’t even close to the key issue. Carney is continuing to lock the US out of our economy. I would like my cellphone bills and cheese prices to be cut, but Liberal protectionism prevents that. Only a fool would think that we should expect full access to their economy when they can’t trade here because our government won’t let them.
“There is remarkably little coverage of this in the American press, save for local coverage in Michigan. ”
The unimportance of Canada to the Americans continues to eat at you, doesn’t it?
“An American president throttling commerce for purely political purposes is outrageous. ”
Yet you were okay with both Barack Obama and Joe Biden doing it though, right?
that bridge should stay closed until Canada allows the annexation of Saskatchewan and Alberta by the United States
Alberta Independence is clearly my first choice but American annexation would be a distant second choice and a far sight better than being under the thumb of the liberal frogs and associated elbows up sycophants.
It’s almost as if some people have never heard Liberals and their lackeys disparage Americans for decades, particularly Republicans, most notably and stupidly, the current President.
How’s that working out?
Not well.
Canadians are going to pay a big price for that typical Liberal arrogance we are all so familiar with.
Doesn’t play as well with a real Media.
Or a real opposition.
Well said, Barca…that is the exact root of the problem.
As long as our bought-and-paid-for ‘news media’ continues to repeat the same old Liberal lies to us, Canadians will continue to believe that Donald Trump started this trade war and not Mark Carney. Carney could have avoided all this *easily*, but he chose to use it to get himself elected instead.
who knows barca, who knows, could alllll be part of the master place to alienate Canaduhians from our 150 year ally to promote this NWO thingy or whatever is bubbling away in carage’s cranuim.
should someone blow a hole in it, take a look inside, draw whatever clarity we can?
Let’s see, the Mulrons want the tax payer to pay to repair their bridge. Michigan declines because the Gordie Howe is coming on line soon. So the Mulrons talk to their friend Lutnik, Lutnik talks to Trump, and lo and behold, the Gordie Howe bridge stays closed.
BTW, the Ambassador Bridge is in such bad shape, that driving companies are going out of their way and using the Clear Water Bridge even though it adds hours to their trip.
And this is a “trade issue”, nothing to do with a set of wealthy families using the public purse to line their pockets.
Classy, not classy. Doesnt matter. Carney didnt start this trade mess, but he made sure Canada never got any concessions with his elbows up rhetoric. This was intentional. It was to stir sentiment against Trump while detroying Canada, leaving Trump as the cause in the minds if Liberal voters.
I find it strange that Trump can start a trade war, accompanied by amazingly disrespectfull remarks towards Canada, but should the Canadian Prime Minister do anything in response to that then he’s rebuked. The double standards are extraordinary,
What’s disrespectful about suggesting Canadians would be better off as a 51st State? There is deep, deep, truth in that statement … today … given Canadian malaise. It wouldn’t have been true 50 years ago … but Canada is becoming a FAILED socialist State. Go ahead and cling to your Net Zero fantasy your mass grave denialism, and your LGBTQueerdom … good luck with that.
Yeah, yeah … you’ll soon SILENCE my pro-Trump “hate speech” … as I’ve hurt your feelings.
I think you are partially right. There is a difference between “come join the party” and “get in the f’n house” though. Personally, I don’t think Trump want Canada in the US. I think he wants a weak neighbour that the US can push around and he will use whatever tools are on hand to get what he wants. If tariffs work, he’ll use them. If derision works, he’ll use that too. If both work, all the better. At the end of the day, Trump wants an asymmetric trading relationship, and he will try to squeeze Canada until he gets it.
BTW, Trump has a number of valid points, the big one that he has not explicitly said, is that organized crime has become rampant in Canada over the last ten years.
Push around? As opposed to sucking at our teat?
Making Trump’s comments the focus … rather than intelligently analyzing the actual trade relationship … is lazy.
Kenji seems to be missing a reply button so I’ll say my bit here.
I’m old enough to remember the disastrous effects of NAFTA on both the hi-tech and manufacturing sectors in Canada. I watched large American investors buy up and shut down their Canadian competitors with easy government money or move them to the US and Mexico, which ever was cheaper. The US deliberately weakens its allies and then complain their not pulling their weight. As for sucking at your teat, you must enjoy it since you use every mechanism you have to make sure we’re dependant on you.
“What’s disrespectful about suggesting Canadians would be better off as a 51st State? ”
Nothing, because we would be.
What’s sad it that people still entertain it as a serious possibility, when no Republican President would *ever* push for 40 million new Democratic voters to enter America.
Nope. We wouldn’t. As it is we are all fleeing Blue States and Cities in record numbers.
Piss off with ther personal remarks, Kenji.
If you only had the power, eh? Thanks for confirming I hurt your feelings.
You find nothing disrespectful about calling the Prime Minister “governor”, do you? Well almost all of Canada does, and it doesn’t matter what party is in power.
No one in Canada gives a shit about this nonsense, except of course the Trump haters, who gotta hate no matter what.
Actually, most Canadians give a shit about this nonsense.
And Trump supporters in Canada are a small minority. Only 15% of Canadians gave him an A or B grade for his first year. If you thought it’d be more then you might want to expand your reading beyond SDA:
https://angusreid.org/fear-factor-canada-us-relationship-trump-carney/
Let’s see … but calling our President an Authoritarian Fascist Natzi … is supposed to roll off our backs?
I said Trump made disrespectful comments about Canada. I didn’t say anonymous Americans did, because obviously there will always be those.
So did Carney make disrespectul comments about Trump or the US? I don’t recall that. Do provide examples if you know of any.
In a related story … does Angus Reid also know that Canadians skew 85% leftist?
Kritter is so used to the tarriff walls between provinces that the idea “trading with us will mean no tariffs, just like between states. It’ll be like you’re a 51st state for trade purposes”. Once TDS sets in President Trump is taken literally but not seriously, when the reverse should be true.
huh?
Apologies, I was thinking that Marmots are among the dumbest of critters and I ended up referencing the wrong account. Mea culpa.
“I find it strange that Trump can start a trade war, ”
I find it amusing that you still keep pushing that easily debunked narrative.
Trump did nothing but respond to Canada’s ongoing violations of the USMCA.
Please list these violations of the USMCA.
Dumping cheap Chinese steel in America.
Dumping cheap Canadian softwoods in America
Protecting an overinflated Canadian dairy industry? Speaking of “free trade”
Oh my god, you don’t research your facts. There have been three official complaints made by the US over Canadian trade to the USMCA Chapter 31 dispute mechanism.
The first two were over Canadian dairy practices. The first complaint was found in favour of the US, and Canada subsequently changed its practices. The second complaint alleged those changes didn’t go far enough. The board found in favour of Canada — in short, that Canadian dairy policy was now compliant with the USMCA.
The third complaint was over Canada’s Digital Service Tax, which was alleged to discriminate against US companies. That became moot when the federal government rescinded the tax.
So officially no ongoing disputes. Without official complaints to the USMCA dispute board, the rest are just the usual allegations made by industries who hope to win tariffs protection from their government so they can fatten their profits. Canadian industries have attempted the same regarding American trade practices.
Classy, not classy. Doesnt matter. Carney didnt start this trade mess, but he made sure Canada never got any concessions with his elbows up rhetoric. This was intentional. It was to stir sentiment against Trump while destroying Canada, leaving Trump as the cause in the minds of Liberal voters.
You can say that again.
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It feels as though the Canadian govt. is throttling my access to SDA. Must be something “hateful” I’ve said. They aren’t appreciating my love for SDA … is love … or something
Agreed, something massively funky is going on with Kate’s web service. I just got blocked for a comment that didn’t even have a link in it.
Carney wants to deny the geography of Canada, deny the power of the US and deny he’s about as useful as a fart in a windstorm.
Clown Nation.
Farts in windstorms actually help equalize air pressure. The best thing to do in a windstorm is fart. It helps prevent tornadoes.
Depends on the farter as some farters wear Depends.
speaking of ‘whisperers’ the original horse whisperer:
https://www.damonrarey.com/sites/jsrarey/
to see a man like that in action must have been something at the time when horses were THE thing
Everyone is bouncing around exclaiming someone’s media tested nonsense language “This project is a powerful example of bipartisan and international cooperation”….while, as always, ignoring the the details of its actual function and continued use. You’ll find that phrase in just about every article on the bridge.
There are a lot of issues unresolved, and guess what. The current US administration tries to cipher out consequences of every program or project instituted. Unlike past administrations. For example, how does this effect the revenue on the competing Ambassador Bridge. Will is make maintenance and upkeep on that bridge difficult to handle? What triggers the recoup of costs of building the bridge (Canada’s cost and recoup issue). Were costs padded to create a larger recoup before Michigan starts the revenue sharing programs. ALL these issues need to be worked out in advance, because if they fester there will be issues down the road.
Doing it now before it opens is a valid process. And, it’s not Trump throwing a tantrum. It’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Ludnick doing the job he’s obligated to perform. Trump has supported this project from the onset (first term). It doesn’t mean you can ignore the pesky little details of it’s use.
What a load of nonsense.
Given that the need for this bridge was first announnced by a joint US-Canada committee in 2004, the US government has had 22 years to figure most of those out. And so far as padding the costs — which no one has alleged — that’s an issue for the State of Michigan, not Washington.
We all know that the delay has nothing to do with any of that, and everything to do with Trump trying to pressure Canada in USMCA negotiations and throttle trade with Canada, especially in the auto sector.
Quoth the marmot: “…Trump trying to pressure Canada…”
Trying?
#OrangeManBad getting every single thing he wants, with bells on it. This bridge deal is a thing of beauty. I love it.
Every time he says the word ‘tariff’ the #LaurentianMaffia screams in mortal agony, and it makes me laugh. Was there ever a more useless bunch of stiffs that the #CanadianLieberals?
Kick ’em again, #Donny.
” Was there ever a more useless bunch of stiffs that the #CanadianLieberals? ”
Yes there is, thee current CUCKservatives!
GYM’s constant CUCK projection, as he sits in the corner wanking his life away. No missus to watch though, he’s a permanent member of Darwin’s waiting room.
I say “trying” because Trump is in a dilemna over this bridge, and Carney must certainly know it. The longer Trump delays the bridge, the worse he looks. Many Americans — even in the centre — think Trump is being a jackass. They respect the fact that Canada paid for and built the bridge, and they are ashamed that the US wants to renege on a reasonable deal.
Midterms are looming. US voters may decide that the best way to rein in Trump is to hand Democrats both houses. Trump seems hellbent on bringing that about. If I were a Republican congressman, I’d be pissed at the orange man.
Pssst … nobody In America outside MI even know anything about this bridge, and couldn’t give two fkcus about it. Which is pretty much how Americans view Canada … it’s like … “there’s a country up there?… huh? Good for them.”
You’re right. This issue is not getting the press it deserves. It seems odd, although YouTube has tons of videos on it.
But it won’t take much to turn a Republican majority into a Democrat one. And if that happens, Trump’s job is getting to get a lot harder.
Yeah, Carney is a dyslexic moron. Harvard + Oxford yet he doesn’t have basic skills like speak freely without teleprompter or have logic and make sense when replying to a basic question.
danC
Hawkins, Jobs, both Wright bros, Branson, da Vinci , Tom Cruise, Bell,all dyslexics, and kkkrarnage is not one.
Neurodivergent GYM, soon to debut LGBTQ2SI GYM.
Hey “Killer Marmut” why don’t you go and get your own blog?
You have posted about what, 16 or 17 times out of 69 or so here, I mean hey, you seem to have something to say that some may want to hear somewhere else.
But not here…
You are just wasting time
Ha. The blog could be called “Small Dull Marmot.”
Oops! Personal jibe. Sorry, eh?
Also sorry to once have called him Shiller Pharmbot.
That was so wrong and lacking in a peer review of double blind insults.
Otherwise, the rebuttals and counterpoints are what makes for “debate” in a comments section, so let her rip.
You failed to post some insane Libertarian bloggers opinion link to “prove” your point.
Hey, the playground is for all. If marmots are slower and more ponderous in their exercise, so be it, says I.
I’d give him the finger, but he’d accuse me of doing a crazy hand jibe.
Plain and simple:
Canada needs the US a lot more than the US needs Canada.
Canada needs the bridge open a lot more than the US.
Canada’s problem is Liberals
Liberals loath Americans.
Liberals hate Trump.
Liberals think they’re smarter and better (Think Gerry Fckhole Butts) than everyone.
Liberals are always looking to benefit Liberals – because they also hate Canadians and Canada – and nothing else matters.
The End.
Canada has gone 159 years without the bridge, and it can go a few more years until Trump is out of office. God bless the 22nd amendment.
Pssst … Obama has shown us the template for defeating the 22nd Amendment … just get a “moderate” good ol Alzheimer’s patient elected* … then run the Autopen for him.
I look forward to at least two more Trump Admin’s. Thanks Obama!
Trump might not even last this term. He does not look healthy. And Vance is leaking popularity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jd-vances-approval-rating-plunges-to-new-historic-low/ar-AA20zMT8
I’m sure Trump being gone will right our ship yes sir ……
Just an observation but maybe you can tell me when Trump holed our hull so to speak.
Cultural as well as financially if you will.
I think it’s rather cowardly intellectually to blame Trump of course if your just thinking money well maybe , but I will argue fiscal Conservatives put money ahead of the culture for years now, and here we are.
It sort of looks like it really mattered the Libs knew it, and the Red Tories didn’t.
Just an observation I’ve had for the last thirty years. as long as the money is moving who gives a fk right.
It’s a bit more nuanced then that but Carney is an useless unaccountable piece of st , is doing nothing really , and if anything you’d almost wonder if he really cares. He is a Prog…
Like I tell every frigging elbows up Canadian – the country has never been so fking weak…. Trump just smells blood in the water and we did it to ourselves.
Like many people, it seems you have trouble owning it.