The mayor of a Canadian border city says the prime minister and premiers should speak to communities like his about frustration with the United States that is bubbling up over president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs and comments about absorbing Canada.
“[The relationship] is deteriorating and people are saying they’re not going to cross the border,” said Mike Bradley, the mayor of Sarnia, Ont., which has a border crossing with Port Huron, Mich.
“I’m hearing it on a constant basis: 'We don’t want to do that anymore because we’re being disrespected.”
And they’re becoming increasingly senile and violent and doing things like this.
In the 80’s when we set up NAFTA it was a smart move, and there wasn’t really a reason not to integrate ever closer with America. That’s over now. We need to protect ourselves from them.