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Carney says the new Canadian-built bridge across Detroit River that Trump threatened will open 39%
By ROB GILLIES0%
6/9/2026, 2:48:41 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Optimism Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 19.5% saturation with 88 hits. Analysis detected 767 faulty-reasoning hits from 451 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 44.3% and a BS Rank of 39% (13,090 of 21,176 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 61.80% of the article peer group.
TORONTO (AP) — A new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River that U.S.
President Donald Trump threatened to block will open soon, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Gordie Howe International Bridge, jointly owned by Canada and the U.S. state of Michigan, is set to take place on Friday, while the bridge itself is expected to open to traffic later this month.
The event follows a recent conversation between Michigan Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.
In February, Trump demanded that Canada turn over at least half the ownership of the bridge to the U.S. federal government and agree to other unspecified demands in one of his many salvos over cross-border trade issues.
The project was negotiated by former Michigan Gov.
Rick Snyder — a Republican — and paid for by the Canadian government to help ease congestion over the existing Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor tunnel.
Work has been underway since 2018.
“Obviously the bridge will be open at the end of the week.
A symbol of, but also a fact of, cooperation between our countries,” Carney told reporters as he walked into Parliament.
“Great for Canadians going across the border, Americans coming across the border, and for commerce,” he said, calling it “positive news.”
Carney, meanwhile, has spoken out on the world stage against economic coercion by the United States.
Sen.
Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, has said that the Canadian-funded project is a “huge boon” to her state and its economic future.
Michigan is a swing state that Trump carried in both 2016 and 2024, but lost to Biden in 2020.
Snyder wrote in an op-ed in The Detroit News earlier this year that Trump was wrong in asserting that Canada owns both the U.S. and Canadian sides of the bridge.
“Canada and the state of Michigan are 50/50 owners of the new bridge,” Snyder wrote.
“Canada was wonderful and financed the entire bridge.
They will get repaid with interest from the tolls.
Michigan and the United States got their half-ownership with no investment.”
The Gordie Howe bridge will join the privately owned Ambassador Bridge as the second span connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
The rival Ambassador Bridge was long the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries.
It plays an especially important role in auto manufacturing.
Companies controlled by the Moroun family, owners of the rival Ambassador Bridge, previously sued to prevent the Howe bridge from being built.
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