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"The Canadians aren't doing their fair share, I'll just be characteristically blunt. They have done absolutely nothing, zero, zero since the 15th of December when ice breaking started on the Great Lakes," he said. "It drives us crazy, it's literally us subsidizing the Canadian taxpayer, us subsidizing the Canadian industry. Like I say, if you have a snowblower and you always do your neighbor's yard. They're never going to buy a snowblower."

"They're supposed to have two icebreakers on the Great Lakes; they've had one of them has been broken, it's done nothing except sit at the pier all year. The second one, they actually took out of the Great Lakes and sent it up the seaway....said Jim Weakley, President of the Lake Carriers' Association, which represents the companies operating cargo vessels on the Great Lakes. "