{"id":817499,"date":"2026-07-22T00:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817499\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:50:10","slug":"no-cross-border-ceremony-for-gordie-howe-bridge-in-light-of-u-s-trade-threats-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817499\/","title":{"rendered":"No cross-border ceremony for Gordie Howe bridge in light of U.S. trade threats: minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada will celebrate the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge this week, the federal minister of infrastructure’s office said Tuesday \u2014 but there will not be a celebration with the United States.<\/p>\n

“In light of trade action threatened by the United States earlier this week, it would be inappropriate to proceed with a celebratory event between the two countries,” said Jenna Ghassabeh, director of communications with Minister Gregor Robertson’s office. <\/p>\n

But the government is “committed” to the bridge opening July 27, the emailed statement said. <\/p>\n

Canada will celebrate the “milestone among Canadians on July 24.”<\/p>\n

Local dignitaries, including Windsor’s mayor and the area’s former longtime NDP MP<\/a>, reported they had been invited to Friday’s event. <\/p>\n

It’s not the first time there’s been a change to the opening ceremonies for this bridge: In June, public officials were set to attend a similar ceremonial event on a Friday when federal officials announced it was being delayed at the\u00a0request of the U.S.<\/a> <\/p>\n

According to Robertson’s office, the agreements to open the bridge remain in place. <\/p>\n

“The Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement and the recently negotiated parallel Agreement in Principle between Canada and the United States remain unchanged,” the emailed statement said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-817499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}