Canada Builds A Bridge, The US Builds A Wall

  In January and February of 2022, the far right "Freedom Convoy" provided a crude, low-budget blueprint for how to paralyze Canada. Seven major arteries were severed: Ambassador Bridge (Windsor), Blue Water Bridge (Sarnia), Peace Bridge (Fort Erie), Emerson (Manitoba), Coutts (Alberta), Pacific Highway (Surrey), and Woodstock (New Brunswick) - a fringe movement proved that our economic lifeblood was only as strong as the nearest idling semi-truck. But as we stand in February 2026, four years later, the blockade has moved from the asphalt to the Oval Office in Washington.

 The threat no longer comes from a line of convoy crazies; it comes from a systematic shakedown of the Canadian state, coordinated by a man who has become the modern personification of a historic slur.

  For decades, the term "The Ugly American" was a pejorative for the loud, arrogant, and ethnocentric American who tramples over local customs while demanding things be done "the American way." Under the current administration, the slur has morphed into a platform. The U.S. is now the neighbour who doesn’t just break the fence, but demands you pay for the privilege of watching him do it - and that fence is the bridge today. Some might say, a bridge too far...

 Between the constant 100% tariff threats and the total disregard for sovereign treaties, the U.S. under Trump and Vance has become a caricature of global boorishness. When Trump looks in the mirror, he may see a "Beautiful American" winner, but Canada sees a racketeer, a real estate mobster holding a $6.4-billion hostage.

 The ultimate irony is that the Gordie Howe International Bridge was the 2012 signature achievement of Stephen Harper. It was a $ 6.4 billion insurance policy for Canadian sovereignty, paid for entirely by Canadians, so we would never again be held hostage by private interests.

 But last week, the man who laid the bridge’s foundation delivered its eulogy. Harper - once the most pro-American PM in history - issued a chilling warning: the U.S. has become "hostile," and Canada must urgently "pivot away." Today, Canadians are embracing a rare moment of national consensus. From the warnings of the Conservative architect (Harper) to his Liberal successor (Carney), we recognize that the neighbour we once knew is gone, and he isn't coming back. He's been replaced by a loud, ignorant gangster.

 The evidence of this betrayal is now undeniable. Since late 2024, President Trump, VP JD Vance, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have held at least three meetings with Alberta separatists and or encouraged them to become a US state.

 While Trump publicly demands "shakedown money" for a bridge Canada built in full, claiming he should own "at least one half" of the asset because it touches American soil, his inner circle is privately entertaining the idea of a Canadian partition. The fact that the Trump administration is taking meetings with Alberta separatists - while simultaneously holding the Gordie Howe Bridge hostage - turns this from a trade dispute into a matter of national survival

  The U.S. is no longer an ally; it is a predator looking for cracks in our foundation. The threat to our border bridge is simply the most visible proof of it. As the Gordie Howe Bridge sits finished but empty - a monument to a partnership that has been weaponized against us - Canada must finally act.

The relationship, as it was, is over. It will never return. It’s time to stop waiting for a mob boss to give us permission to use our own front door and start building the roads that lead everywhere else. As Gordie Howe would have said, "Elbows Up"!