Relationship with U.S. & Canada strained in President Trump’s first 100 days [Video]

WINDSOR, ON. (WXYZ) — Only about a mile separates Detroit in the United States and Windsor, Ontario in Canada. Despite their close proximity, many Canadians we spoke to in the Windsor area say the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration have caused an unexpected strain in the relationship.

“We’re not trying to be confrontational or adversarial or whatever. We’re just trying to be supportive of our country,” Paul Susko, a Windsor resident, said.

Susko said his Canadian flag went up a few weeks ago, and many of his neighbors’ flags are new, too, mostly put up in response to recent trade tensions and tense rhetoric with the United States.

“Some of the threats of annexation, the 51st state nonsense, we find it more insulting than a joke,” Susko said.

“We’re like a good neighbor, like a brother or sister, and it feels like he’s turned on us,” Shannon Winters, another Windsor resident, said.

Winters told me she has felt a …