Trump's War on Canada

A photo editor from the Globe and Mail called me late Monday evening asking if I could be at the Ambassador Bridge for midnight to meet two reporters driving down from Toronto. Tariffs were set to go into effect at midnight. This was later revised to an early morning start when I met up with the reporters and headed to the Husky Hungry Restaurant - a trucker’s diner on the edge of town. For the next two days we’d be scrambling for leads, going back and forth to Detroit, and chasing the developing news as it unfolded. On a third day I was asked to again illustrate the automotive companies transporting trucks across the border after the auto sector was given a reprieve. Below are some of my images from the three days.

A Huron Church Road in the late afternoon is nearly empty of transport truck traffic. Traffic on this stretch of road is often backed up over a kilometre long.

A television in an empty trucker’s diner shows Premiere Doug Ford speaking about the US imposed tariffs.

Gas pumps for trucks, which would normally be bustling with activity, sit mostly unused.

A married couple, one American and one Canadian, discuss the tariff issue in a near empty trucker’s diner on the outskirts of Windsor.

Truckers Neal and George give their opinion on Trump’s imposed tariffs on Canadian goods.

A worker begins his morning shift at the Windsor Assembly Plant. The automotive sector stands to suffer immensely due to how integrated production is between the two countries.

Glenn Stevens, executive director of MichAuto, talks about the impact tariffs will have on the auto sector, from his office in downtown Detroit.

A transport truck hauling Chrysler Pacificas leaves Windsor Assembly Plant on the first day tariffs on automobiles would be given a month reprieve.

This was for a story on the divergence in opinion between Canadian and American auto unions.

Photos from Windsor graced the cover of the Globe’s Report on Business section three days in a row as the tariff issue dominated headlines.