As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a Voice

ProPublica reports that Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods are devastating the Sault Ste. Marie border community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Traffic across the sole vehicular crossing for hundreds of miles has plunged nearly twenty-four percent, costing the region at least eighty-two point nine million dollars in lost spending. Canadians are voting with their feet — boycotting US travel and shopping — while local businesses report drops of around twenty-seven percent or more. The sting is sharp in a community traditionally built on cross-border unity, where a June bridge walk symbolized that kinship.

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