Here's a stat that I find interesting. When the Ambassador Bridge was first built Canada-U.S. trade was almost non-existent. Canada's total exports at the time the Ambassador Bridge was built were about equivalent to one week's worth of auto trade today.
If you put that in perspective we’re still shipping over that bridge, which was meant for global trade at the time, and what we ship today in a week just in one sector is the equivalent of what was shipped in a year then. At the Ambassador Bridge, two sectors make up about 95% of it, agriculture and automotive, so the infrastructure in Canada—and this goes back to RCC and beyond the border and beyond that—is woefully inadequate to deal with it. And we're not just talking about the Ambassador Bridge, which you're familiar with obviously, just one corridor.
I cross a lot, for example, personally going down through the Niagara way. The Peace Bridge has three lanes. It's backed up all the time, never mind a long weekend when everyone else is going. The trucks are backed up with them. The Blue Water is the only bridge we've really seen an expansion on at least in the Great Lakes area and recently. We need more trade infrastructure.
To the world too, we have very limited access whether it's east or west. Whether it's trucks and cars or whether it's even energy supply, we can't get our stuff to the world. We've really lacked in our investment in trade infrastructure for decades. This isn't a recent thing. This is a decades-old problem.