Vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, as truckers and their supporters continue to protest against the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
* Biden's cabinet secretaries Alejandro Mayorkas and Pete Buttigieg spoke with Canadian counterparts
* White House is urging Justin Trudeau's government to use its 'federal powers' to end the Freedom Convoy
* Canadian trucker protesting since mid-Jan against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Covid-19 vaccine mandate
* International route drivers must be double jabbed, and 85 percent are, but the demonstrators oppose the rule * Since Monday at least three US-Canadian border bridges have been blocked in Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba
* Ontario's Ambassador Bridge, between Detroit and Windsor, is North America's busiest international crossing
* Ontario premier Doug Ford asked courts to freeze donations to truckers on a crowdfunding site GiveSendGo
* Trudeau said he spoke to officials, accused drivers of 'hurting jobs, businesses, and our country's economy'
President Joe Biden's administration has urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to use its federal powers to end the Freedom Convoy demonstrations blockading key border crossings to protest Canada's COVID-19 restrictions.
On Friday the blockade halting traffic at the Ambassador Bridge crossing connecting Windsor, Ontario to Detroit entered its fifth day, disrupting the flow products between the two countries and threatening to shut down production at several US auto plants.
The bridge, which connects Windsor, Ontario with Detroit, Michigan, is North America's busiest international land border and usually carries more than $327million of goods per day on over 8,000 trucks, accommodating 27 percent of the approximately $400 billion in annual trade between Canada and the US.
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WNU Editor: The White House is making it perfectly clear that they do not want these protests to spread into the U.S.. I for one would not be surprised if in the coming days the Biden administration will lift U.S. mandates for cross-border truckers to be vaccinated, thereby giving Prime Minister Trudeau cover to rescind Canada's Covid mandates on the truckers.
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US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade -- AP
U.S. presses Canada on border blockage, braces for potential Super Bowl disruptions -- Reuters
Biden urges Trudeau to use fed powers to end bridge blockade -- NYPost
Freedom Convoy: US urges Canada to end blockade by truckers -- BBC
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