Prime Minister Mark Carney says the Gordie Howe International Bridge linking Ontario and Michigan will open soon, months after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to bar its opening.
“The bridge will be open by the end of the week. A symbol, but also a fact of cooperation between our countries,” Carney told reporters in Parliament on June 9.
Carney said the bridge will be “great for Canadians going across the border, Americans coming across the border, and for commerce.” He also congratulated the Canadian and American workers who built the bridge.
The $6.4 billion project will be the second bridge, after the Ambassador Bridge, connecting the cities of Windsor and Detroit. In 2012, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder reached an agreement on the project, and the Obama administration approved it in 2013….