Windsor Ontario Mayor Dilkens noted a New York Times report saying that Matthew Moroun, the Detroit-based owner of the Ambassador Bridge spoke with U.S. secretary of commerce Howard Lutnick Monday afternoon.
Lutnik then spoke with Trump, according to the report, which cited two confidential sources. Then, on Monday evening, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would not allow the Gordie Howe International Bridge to open until the United States owned half? Coincidentally coincidental?
(James Blanchard, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada and governor of Michigan said there are ties between the Trump White House and the Moroun family. "In the previous administration, they gave a lot of money to Mr. Trump's inauguration," Blanchard said, noting the family's long history of opposition to the Gordie Howe bridge)
Moroun and his family have owned the Ambassador Bridge since 1979. The Canadian Transit Company (CTC) owns the Canadian half of the bridge, and that company is then owned by the Detroit International Bridge Company, owned by the Moroun family…& not at least 1/2 by America? I’m shocked!!
The bridge company has long launched bids to try and stop the Gordie Howe from opening because it will reduce the traffic on the Ambassador. Ahhhhhh….
The bridge company has long launched bids to try and stop the Gordie Howe from opening because it will reduce the traffic on the Ambassador.
Dilkens said he understands Moroun's position on the new bridge — but that it's about enhancing trade and adding redundancy so crucial trade can continue to flow.
About $400 million in trade flows across the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor and Detroit daily, according to the Canadian federal government, and the company says crossing is the busiest land border crossing in North America.
Recently, a judge ruled that the legal case involving the federal government and the Canadian Transit Company should head to trial — over the issue of whether the CTC has the exclusive rights to collect tolls at border crossings in west Windsor, based on a piece of legislation more than 100 years old. (???)
The Canadian federal government had motioned for a summary judgement— asking for the case to be dismissed without a trial, arguing that it was "plain and obvious" that the 1921 law, the Canadian Transit Company Act, didn't grant the company exclusive rights.
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Lutnik then spoke with Trump, according to the report, which cited two confidential sources. Then, on Monday evening, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would not allow the Gordie Howe International Bridge to open until the United States owned half? Coincidentally coincidental?
(James Blanchard, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada and governor of Michigan said there are ties between the Trump White House and the Moroun family. "In the previous administration, they gave a lot of money to Mr. Trump's inauguration," Blanchard said, noting the family's long history of opposition to the Gordie Howe bridge)
Moroun and his family have owned the Ambassador Bridge since 1979. The Canadian Transit Company (CTC) owns the Canadian half of the bridge, and that company is then owned by the Detroit International Bridge Company, owned by the Moroun family…& not at least 1/2 by America? I’m shocked!!
The bridge company has long launched bids to try and stop the Gordie Howe from opening because it will reduce the traffic on the Ambassador. Ahhhhhh….
The bridge company has long launched bids to try and stop the Gordie Howe from opening because it will reduce the traffic on the Ambassador.
Dilkens said he understands Moroun's position on the new bridge — but that it's about enhancing trade and adding redundancy so crucial trade can continue to flow.
About $400 million in trade flows across the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor and Detroit daily, according to the Canadian federal government, and the company says crossing is the busiest land border crossing in North America.
Recently, a judge ruled that the legal case involving the federal government and the Canadian Transit Company should head to trial — over the issue of whether the CTC has the exclusive rights to collect tolls at border crossings in west Windsor, based on a piece of legislation more than 100 years old. (???)
The Canadian federal government had motioned for a summary judgement— asking for the case to be dismissed without a trial, arguing that it was "plain and obvious" that the 1921 law, the Canadian Transit Company Act, didn't grant the company exclusive rights.
Relationship with Ambassador Bridge company 'a step forward, 2 steps back,' Windsor mayor says — CBC News
Windsor’s relationship with the owners of the Ambassador Bridge has suffered setbacks, mayor Drew Dilkens says, even before reports that the bridge owners lobbied the U.S. federal government just hours before Trump took a swipe at the Gordie Howe bridge.