vehicle. some of them have moved. it s actually gone down from what it was two weeks uh-uh go, but it s still disrupting commerce and tourism and certainly deserving the people who live in that particular neighborhood in and around parliament hill, and my message to the drivers and the truck industry, these are not really the mainstream truck drivers. these are a whole series of people who have gripes and grievances with government and politics and so on, but the bottom line is they ve had their peace. they were listened to and i agreed with them, and now it s time for them to go home to their provincial capital and lobby their provincial government. so in a letter to the prime minister and the premier of ontario you wrote, quote, we must do everything in our power to take back the streets of ottawa. that s something the prime minister echoed by declaring this afternoon that everything is on the table to end
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vaccines, as far as mask requirements. but it is representative, in a broader movement, and a broader frustration. a lot of these folks who came out here are just frustrated. it may not necessarily be about the vaccine, it may not be about the masks, but it is definitely about the political system that they find themselves in. and so, as this kind of moves west, there is a kind of yearning to be heard. i just want to mention, ali, we talked visually about the trump rallies, we have so many of the same visuals here, we have the trump flags, the red hats with him writing in white for the truckers. it s designed after those trucks logan s. there are t-shirts been sold, you have that atmosphere that is very eerily similar to what we saw in the united states five or six years ago. and you ve seen not a lot, because you are a lot of those rallies, kyle, thanks for being with us tonight, keep us posted if anything happens. just wave into the camera, we ll come right back to you. msnbc news
and in the face of all that, there is what s looking more and more like a showdown on our border with canada. you re looking at truckers and other protesters covid restrictions and protesting covid restrictions in windsor, ontario at the bridge connecting the city to the detroit, a bridge carrying about quarter of all trade between the u.s. and canada. the protesters defying a judge s order to clear the crossing by 7:00 p.m. more than three hours ago. the mayor of windsor threatening to start towing vehicles. workers in michigan could lose $51 million in wages this week. they re hurting workers. 51 million. $51 million in lost wages this week. the homeland security warning the protest could affect the super bowl. why is the right cheering while our economy is being damaged?
resolved is the million dollar or maybe billion dollar industry question as well. let s go to the front lines in canada for the very latest to glen mcgregor, senior political correspondent with ctv national news, live from the capital of ottawa. i m so glad you re here to talk about this because i got to tell you, when we re hearing about this and watching it, people here stateside should know and hopefully realize this impacts the u.s., and it impacts all of north america. what are you seeing there? yeah, the impact is enormous for that trade that flows back and forth between canada and the u.s., particularly at the border crossing, the ambassador bridge that connects windsor ontario to detroit, michigan. as you said in your introduction, it s crucial to the auto industry, canada and the u.s. auto industries are extremely integrated and they re just-in-time delivery businesses. so if parts don t arrive right when they re supposed to, the assembly lines stop and they