When I first saw President Donald Trump’s recent social media comment against the soon-to-open Gordie Howe International Bridge, my first reaction was disbelief. My second was frustration.

I am hardly a Never Trumper. In fact, I voted for Trump thrice. But enough is enough. Attacking a vital piece of infrastructure that maintains critical economic ties with Canada is not just bad policy. It is profoundly out of step with the interests of my home state of Michigan and, frankly, the country.

Canada is the United States’s largest and most important trading partner. Every day, billions of dollars in goods cross the northern border. Much of that trade comes through Michigan, particularly the Detroit-Windsor, Ontario, corridor.

For Michigan, this relationship is not abstract. It is personal.

Countless Michiganders have family, friends, business, and sports ties across the border in Ontario. The history runs deeper still: the first elections in what became Michigan were conducted for what is today the Ontario provincial legislature, a reminder that our region developed together long before the modern boundary hardened.

I know this firsthand. I lived in Canada during a short-lived hockey career. I........

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