flags lining the highway in protestg . t but the most meaningful blockade of all is taking place right nowll on the ambassador bridge. that s the privately owned spanw that connectsne detroit too windsor, ontario. ifwi you live in the upper midwest u, well, a quarter of al the trade between the united states and canada, one another s biggest trading partners, that s billions of dollars comes to cross that bridge. and as fox news molly line is reporting from ottawa, that bridge is nowhu completely shut down. canadian we won t be freean canadians increasing concernst running through canada and now the u.s. as the freedom convoy threatens trade alongon the border between truckers blocking traffic at the ambassador bridge connecting detroit and ontario . a second crossing linkingng alberta and montana also shut down by protesters calling for an end toa all covered restrictions and vaccine mandates. we love freedom, freedom of all mandatesav and that s what we re fighting for. the ambassa
crossing in north america, carrying 25% oflri all trade between canada and the u.s. we want freedom. the truckers are saying freedom from mandates. it s a very straightforward ask, but so farda the truckers don t have that freedom and so their blockade continues. so far that blockade has forced the ford motor company to shut down of its manufacturing plants and to operate another plant with a skeleton crew toyota says won t be able tont manufacture vehicles in ontario forar the rest of the week. general motors has canceled multiple shifts at its in lansing, michigan i due to part shortages. so this protest is less than a week old and already is causing deep pain to at least one global industry. it s hard to overstate the historical significance of what we re watching right here. the canadian trucker convoy is the single most successful human rights protestma in a generation. if nothing else, it has been a very useful reminder to our entitled ruling class. the working class men can be p