Through the border from Detroit, beating and anger at the American definitions

It was not long ago that the “Night Hockey Night in Canada” starts on the large screens of Windsor, Ontario, fans can be heard in the arena who offer an ice message where the national anthem of the national team was played. Screams, long and loud.

The visiting team was Minnesota Wilde, and the anthem was the “stars banner”, and the game was in Ottawa on Saturday, hours after President Trump imposed a heavy commercial tariff on Canadian imports.

Windsor is the capital of cars in Canada, and a city where the flag that has been praised in the American anthem can be seen by Boed America as it flutes next to its Canadian counterpart. With Detroit directly across the border, the ATMs were disbursed in Windsor, both US and Canadian dollars.

Thus, the decision of Mr. Trump to impose a 25 percent harmful tariff on most Canadian exports and 10 percent of exports to energy exports has extinguished waves of anger and anxiety in Windsor, and a feeling, for many people, from deep disappointment and impotence.

The customs tariff, which is an amazing exit from the standard in modern relations between the two countries, has raised concerns about the rapid closure of local car plants, in addition to the auto factories in Detroit across a river at some points with only half a mile.

Mr. Trump’s suggestions, repeated again on Sunday, that Canada is abandoning its sovereignty and throwing it with the United States only added an insult to the injury. The Canadians in Windsor looked at the idea of ​​the American President as – in a moderate phrase – in vain.

“What will he do for us?” Navita Peters, writer at a store, asked, as she sought a price for a newspaper with a large image of Canadian maple paper on the first page. “It is unfortunate for businessmen, but we will all suffer in the end.”

“It is annoying, but what can we do? I am proud to be Canadian,” said Ms. Peters, who moved to Windsor 25 years ago from Trinidad.

Lana Payne, President of Unifor, a union representing many Windsor specialists and employees in other industries across the country, said that since the announcement of Mr. Trump’s tariff late on Saturday afternoon, the messages had been subjected to messages.

“Many Canadians wake up this morning at all and try to find out why their closest ally in the world does this,” said Ms. Payne, who estimated that about 120,000 members of her federation said. On exports, primarily to the United States. “I didn’t think I would see this in my life.”

Windsor seemed to go up.

After many years of the new investment of cars elsewhere in Canada, or, more commonly, Mexico and the southern United States, Stelantis spent $ 1.89 billion in Canadian dollars (about $ 1.3 billion) to re -prepare the Chrysler Getting Factory in Windsor for making electric cars alongside gasoline -distributed . With 4,500 employees, and thousands of others expected as soon as a third transformation is added, the factory is the center of the auto industry in Windsor.

Abroad on the outskirts of the eastern city, there are $ 5 billion (a Canadian dollar (about $ 3.4 billion) a plant owned by Stelantis and LG is under construction, with one part already.

Now, instead of expecting growth, local companies are waiting impatiently to see if they can stick to what they already have.

Flavio Volb, head of the Automobile Spare Spare Parties Association, a Canadian commercial group, said that many of Windsor’s auto parts are receiving weekly orders from auto manufacturers based on production schedules for assembly factories in Canada and the United States. He said that it is possible that the car companies are likely to inform the partners of the United States’ orders, “they need to take 25 percent.”

Since absorbing the international tariff means losses of 15 to 20 percent for most parts of parts, most of them will decide to stop shipping. Consumer makers will also have to compensate for the definitions of the final cars shipped from Canada.

“How will you reserve a loss every day?” Mr. Volp asked.

George Bab, CEO of Papp Plastics, a spare parts maker near the Detroit River in Windsor, said on Sunday that he had not yet heard from any car companies.

“It has become clear that this is related to punishing Canada or Mexico and more about restructuring the revenue for the United States,” said Mr. Bab. Other countries may also find an American tariff. “Canada and Mexico are examples in the world about what will come,” he said.

Since car plants often stay in stocks less than 24 hours of parts, it is expected that you will follow the closure of the assembly line quickly any suspension of parts of the parts. The Stelantis factory in Windsor, which makes mini van and muscle cars, is among those facilities at risk, because it depends on the components sent by the United States that use Canadian parts.

Even before Mr. Trump issued the official of the customs tariff order, and the Canadian government responded to its definitions on American products, some people in Windsor were discussing the boycott.

In a café adjacent to the distillation of the distillation where Canadian whiskey is manufactured – and it is largely exported to the United States – two men can be heard loudly. They excluded taking any holidays in the United States, and even pledged not to cross the river for the Detroit Tigers games as soon as the basement season started.

Under official requests, the American beer, wine and weddings will be withdrawn from the government -owned wine stores. One of the supermarkets was running paid leaflets promoting Canadian origins of some brands of pasta and frozen fried potatoes. And online ads by Canadian airlines for flights to winter destinations in the United States have been met with comments and recovers to vacation in Canada.

While economic concerns prevail, Windsor residents also worry about the damage that the conflict is presented to the close relationship they have long enjoyed with the United States.

Dero Delkins, the mayor of Windsor, said he was sitting in a meeting hall with a view on the American city horizon.

Mr. Delkins said that Canada has “cards we can play” in revenge, but this possibility did not give him any pleasure.

“We want to be friends, just as we were hundreds of years,” he said. “We are not looking for a battle.”