Windsor-Detroit borderline protests

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A protest being planned on both sides of the Detroit River this weekend. CTV Windsor’s Travis Fortnum has more.  Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos: https://www.youtube.com/ctvnews  Connect with CTV News: For live updates and latest headlines visit: http://www.ctvnews.ca/  For breaking news, fast, download the CTV News App: https://www.ctvnews.ca/app Must-watch stories and full programs at http://www.ctvnews.ca/video  CTV News on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/CTV-News CTV News on X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/CTVNews   CTV News on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/CTVNEWS CTV News on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/ctv-news  --- CTV News is Canada's most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.  #ctvnews #ctvnationalnews #canadiannews

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00:00We are in this together.

00:02Canada and the US are intimately

00:04connected through so many ways as

00:07they so often do Windsorites and

00:10Michiganders plan to come together

00:12Saturday this time in solidarity

00:15and in protest. We thought that,

00:17you know, coming together was a strong

00:21message to send to show the White

00:24House that the citizens both on

00:26both sides, Canadian and American,

00:29we respect each other.

00:30We love each other and we really

00:33want to go back to what things

00:36used to be. Audrey Boyle

00:38lives in a Detroit suburb,

00:39but like many in this area,

00:42has strong connections to

00:43the other side of the river.

00:45She says she couldn't stand by as

00:48President Trump's tariffs and veiled

00:50threats to annex Canada continued.

00:52What a shame. I mean how

00:54ashamed we all are. You know

00:56about this Saturday, March 22nd

00:58in the afternoon, she and a group

01:00of protesters will gather in Detroit

01:03Hart Plaza while their Canadian

01:04counterparts will rally beneath the

01:06Canadian flag at the foot of Olet.

01:08So we will be really facing each other.

01:10She says the protest also targets

01:13Trump's alignment with billionaire

01:14Elon Musk. What I really feel is

01:17that it's us, the people across

01:19countries against them. A sentiment

01:22that has already sparked movements,

01:24including boycotts of Musk's Tesla brand.

01:27So they are driving around now.

01:29In something that has become symbolic

01:31of a particular person and a

01:33particular kind of a politics.

01:35University of Manitoba

01:36Sociology Professor Mark Hudson,

01:37who has studied the Tesla takedown

01:39protests, sees a broader trend

01:41emerging. There's also a broader,

01:43deeper undercurrent around this,

01:44which is about the question of the

01:46influence of the super rich in politics

01:49and and democratic processes. Boyle

01:51sees that trend too, and it invites

01:53everyone to join in.

01:55Get in on it. We want to send a very

01:58clear message that we are completely

02:01connected now. Organizers say more than

02:03anything, there's a real desire to

02:06return to normalcy in this community.

02:08Two communities really that just

02:10happened to be split by an

02:13international border. Ricardo.

02:14OK, Travis, thank you for that.

02:17That's the TV's Travis Fortman tonight.

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