The ongoing protests on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario have led to more disruptions at GM assembly plants in the United States.
According to The Detroit Free Press, GM was forced to cut the second shift from its Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant on Thursday due to a parts shortage related to the Ambassador Bridge closure. Delays in receiving parts from Canada also led to production setbacks at Flint Assembly and Fort Wayne Assembly on Thursday, both of which build the automaker’s hugely popular and highly profitable Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks.
Speaking to the Free Press on Thursday, GM spokesman Dan Flores said the automaker is exploring “all the options available to keep our regular production schedules intact,” including using cargo planes to ship parts from Canada to the U.S. and rerouting transport trucks from the Ambassador Bridge entrance to another point of entry. Flores did not elaborate on the measures it’s taking to get around the bridge closure, however, citing competitive reasons.
“This is certainly a fluid situation and we have and will continue to mitigate the issues with our supply base as potential shortages surface,” Flores told the newspaper.
The Canadian protest against pandemic mandates has hampered the free flow of traffic at the Ambassador Bridge since it first began earlier this week. The Windsor protest is an extension of a separate, related protest in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa, which initially began as a protest against a cross-border vaccine mandate for truckers but has since transformed into a catch-all protest against various pandemic mandates and restrictions. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to make an announcement regarding the government’s stance on the lengthy border protest on Friday at 10:30 a.m.
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You can not go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ doughnuts unless you have a slight Indian accent and I’m not joking.
WWG1WGA. God bless those Canadian patriots.
Yes patriots. Tell that evil government in Ottawa “You’re not going to take away 1 oz of my freedom just to keep thousands of Canadians alive. It’s my birth right to go to any part of this country unmasked and unvaccinated. Spreading this disease from sea to shining sea. And if my travels cause a super variant to break out (deadlier than Delta more contagious than Omicron). That’s your problem, not mine.”
Cdc said the cloth masks don’t work majority of the people wear those so sorry. And yes the cdc knows more then some random internet troll. You got a problem with everything then you run for office and try to make it a requirement or pack your bags and leave go to a country that has it as a requirement. My body my choice troll you might control everyone in your household but you definitely don’t anywhere outside of that.
Mike
Obviously I was being sarcastic and over the top with my last comment, but that is what the antimaskers and antivaxers sound like to me.
Oh and BTW: independent studies have found. If 2 people are talking and 1 has covid. The 2nd is 70% less likely to get Covid if one of them is wearing a mask, and 98% less likely if both people are wearing a mask. They found while wearing a mask the air your inhaling and exhaling is close to you. Making transfer far less likely.
source please.
Results of Stanford University Medical School’s mask study were released on September 1st and covered by most major news outlets.
FOX was doiing a compare and contrast of kids wearing masks to school and the Jewish Holocaust. So you may have missed it.
N-95’s stop 95% of particulates down to .3 microns, the CV19 virus is 6x smaller at .05 microns. Guess what that means
Lol, I never needed some silly Interstate 95 mask, went 2 years before I eventually got it, then I recovered….
Mad Max Airflow is everything
When wearing a mask the air you’re inhaling and exhaling is close to you.
Unmasked exhaled particals can travel across a room
i guess this requires clarification for some that failed math in grade school.
let me try again, the N-95 will NOT filter anything SMALLER than .3 microns.
therefor the virus at .05 is 6 X SMALLER so it will penetrate an N-95 rated mask.
Don’t try to explain anything to these tools on here.
Mad Max
Nonsense let’s say we’re having a normal conversation. With the exception that you’re wearing pants and I’m not, and we both started pissing. Pants are not going to keep the liquid in.
Point being you don’t want my piss all over you. I don’t want your virus all over me. Wear a mask, and I’ll keep wearing pants.
The troll is back and you’re gonna get in trouble, ooh aah ooh aah, Peter G’s back.
Outside of the fact that you like to troll, you can’t even do it with a lick of common sense or facts.
Masks don’t work and mandates are unnecessary at this stage given the danger of Omicron, the vaccinated population level and the efficacy of the vaccines against Omicron.
We knew you weren’t bright Peter, but you’ve gone to a new low.
How about it
Thank you! It feels good to be missed. I would love to comment more often, but I have a job, dealing with the public every day.
Those paper masks have kept me covid free for all 2 years of this pandemic. So judging from my experience they do work.
Your anecdotal experience! Why didn’t I think of that? Forget about the studies. How silly. There is no need for masks, especially in children. The pandemic is over, it’s endemic and the virus is weak. We don’t need mandates public worker you.
Hey Fish Brain,
I already cited a study in a previous comment. Which you responded too. Does your memory not go back more than 5 minutes?
Eric
900,000 Americans and 35,000 Canadians dead from Covid. Whose the fool?
3 tiny needle sticks in the arm, and I’m sleeping in my own bed tonight. Using my own toilet, and getting laundry fresh out of my dryer.
I was agreeing with you. That’s why I said what I saw the other day Peter destroyed your logic I said that to how about it.
Really? Destroyed my logic? Do tell. Wait don’t, you can’t because you don’t know what logic is.
How about it
True, logic says it is impossible to shove your head up your rectum. But most right wingers live their whole life that way.
Ha Ha! I love it. Gnash those teeth in disgust!
WonkaWonkaWonka
These trucks are littered with garbage about god this is proof the heretics are behind this. Canadian and American citizens must come together to completely eliminate god from both countries or we will fail as nations. We need to burn all churches and knock over all the false prophets statues. A log must be made to track down every Christian in both countries and charge them with treason. Keep god OUT of the USA and Canada!
I’m sorry, it’s funny not only atheist way of getting rid of God fails, they kill millions of people because of “undesirables” only to see that plan fails also like Hitler, Stalin, Mao…
Brother you have been blinded by the lies of the heretics I don’t fault you for that they can be very persuasive you just need guidance is all. The holy book of lies and deceit has clouded your judgement but don’t worry we will succeed. The heretics have destroyed many nations and we will not let them destroy Canada and the USA. They spread filth daily 24/7 and they have infected you. More and more people are waking up daily and seeing what the heretics have done. You seem like a decent person don’t let the heretics control you.
I want to know what atheist base value system that western society used that don’t involve mass extinction as a systematic function?..
@Martin . The article is in relation to the affect on the auto industry, and this is an Automobile site. Please stop making hateful/divisive comments on here as it is really useless dribble. If you don’t have anything intelligent to add, then respect others and don’t go around insulting everyone that thinks differently than you.
I thought this was a political and vaccine forum?
@Mike It’s obvious you are giving yourself thumbs-up ratings. You’re not fooling anyone, but it is sad that you feel you need to come into these forums to spew garbage and then try to create the illusion that so many agree with you. We are not that gullible. You are an obvious troll and should be ignored, as I will do.
So this isn’t a political and vaccine forum? I’m just looking at the comments in this one article alone and it’s filled with both. You can believe whatever you want that has absolutely nothing to do with me. It’s funny though how anytime someone gets downvoted for something they believe they are right on they always complain lol. I never knew people needed random strangers to tell them good job to feel better about themselves
Downvoted a multitude of times in less than a few minutes. My system detected it happening. Let leave it at that before you make a fool of yourself. Last comment I will make to a troll.
Wait a minute you mean an article written today that was posted just recently would have a lot of people looking at it within a few minutes? Yea that can’t be right. That’s neat your system can detect downvotes I thought they could only detect new comments. I’ll give you an upvote since it bothers you so much. I would suggest you seek mental help though that’s not healthy to need approval from complete internet strangers you don’t know and will never meet.
Then go elsewhere LB.
I just gave him an upvote for that last comment. It’s pretty good.
You are one of the main people on here that stresses upvotes and spell checks. One would begin to think you believe this is reddit where you earn karma for up or downvotes.
@ LB
I’ll say what I want I don’t care if it disrespects you or not. You got a problem with what I said? Well that sounds like a personal issue now doesn’t it.
“we will fail as nations” bright eyes says with God. You mean because the success and development of Western Civilization was built on the absence of Judao-Christian principles? Do tell. This is going to be fun.
A country built on the basis of God and now you want to burn its history down, gotta love it when idiots get access to internet go back to sleep “kid”.
God isn’t real. And church and state should stay separated. Now log off fool.
Of course they have to stay separated and that’s your opinion about God, the country you live in was built on the belief that one existed and thrived, close your account now and go to sleep 🙂
Did you reserve the Silverado ev?
Time got Trudeau to go.
Lets go Justin!
I like how some media has called the truckers as violent, Confarreate flag waving racist’s. Yet I watch the news other than blocking some streets I see no violence. No Looting, No burning. To be honest it is much like a street party. They even pick up their own trash.
These lies are getting weaker every time they play them.
I have some buddies up there and they have told of the mess old Justin has made. They said him Mama smoked too much pot when she was making him.
He also said there were Nazi flags. There have nothing of the kind. They are clinging to to their last bit of power. Their era is slowly coming to an end. All he can do is make accusations.
Clean bridge 🌉….
Call the police and tell them to clean it. Tell them it bothers you they are there I’m sure they will listen to you and do exactly as you ask.
Nah I’ll call Maj. Clean with his brigade. With bulldozers, tear gas and bean bullets traffic would be open in time for the Super Bowl…
Haha you mean Patrick Stewart 🤣
Spoken like a true brown shirt. You were born in the wrong decade and country.
Pepper spray for all my rebel truckers 🚛!!
I get the protestors point, we’re all super tired of this crapola. But legitimately just disrupting supply lines really doesn’t prove your point, it just annoys citizens and businesses more than the gov. Time to send them all home.
I’m pretty sure this is going exactly as they planned. If everyone else gets tired of it, then they can tell the government to end the mandates.
I’m not convinced this could actually work though.
Unless the government capitulates Tomasso BECAUSE supply lines get disrupted. It’s a matter of who blinks first.
They’re already announced they’re going to use force to get people home. Jail time or massive fines will be handed out. It’s over. Provinces were already loosening the regulations. The whole protest didn’t make sense because it’s not the Federal gov of Canada that mandated to go to the US you need to have proof of vax. That was the US gov.
Good I hope the truckers keep it up it’s an easy fix just stop the mandates but the woke liberals can’t back down so screw them need to overth the government and do the same here
I stand with the truckers…
So I guess, it’s business as usual.. Major manufacturers haven’t learned that “just in time” manufacturing (think computer chips) is a seriously flawed strategy and they haven’t picked up on that, after losing billions and billions. I don’t blame truckers because they simply point out the problem that no one seems to want to address.
It’s about more than masks. Must be left wing nut cases watching cnn.
What’s going wrong? This is terrible. The world is a mess. Growing up I remember things that bothered me. Getting older it seems to make me more worried. My business was destroyed by the pandemic and I’m worried for my grandkids and all the kids in the world. Doesn’t matter about me. We all have to come together as humans to get the world right.🤦🏻
Makes me sick to see cops supporting Trudeau the people are standing up for all the people in Canada and screw it I hope they exterminate Trudeau