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U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra has denied that a donation from the billionaire family that owns the Ambassador Bridge is responsible for the delay in opening the new Gordie Howe Bridge. Global News asked Hoekstra whether a million-dollar campaign donation to MAGA Inc. from Matthew Moroun, the head of the family that has owned the bridge since the 1970s, was linked to the hold-up. “Absolutely not,” the outlet reports Hoekstra to have said. “The bridge was not open when it was announced a couple of weeks ago by mutual agreement of the Canadian government and the U.S. government...