Jon Cooper is still marveling that one of the biggest achievements of his career was became a surreal international drama

Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.

Korva herself didn’t want to talk politics with a Free Press reporter who had come to Windsor to gauge the mood in the city, but her comments shared one of the sentiments that was heard throughout the day: that people in the Windsor and Detroit areas are close, like family. Consternation at recent events was another.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has imposed tariffs on Canadian goods and threatened to make Canada the 51st state, has loomed large over the contest.

“We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm the USA, and therefore, until it stops, or is seriously limited, the proposed TARIFFS scheduled to go into effect on MARCH FOURTH will, indeed, go into effect, as scheduled,” he said.

The president has launched a trade war seeking to quell the flow of illegal immigrants and the illegal trafficking of drugs and rebalance trade.