Thank you.
We don't have to look too far to understand why having one bridge privately owned by a foreign entity is an issue. In terms of the volume of traffic that could get across the Ambassador Bridge, the decision to widen that bridge comes from a private party. For years, I think the industry has said that it would benefit from that. That private party is motivated by things that private parties are motivated by, like return on investment, etc., and they are raising the capital to do it.
The industry lobbied successive governments for decades to construct another bridge. This Gordie Howe bridge provides some insurance that if the next band of lunatics that want to barricade a bridge shows up, maybe there will be another one that's open. Also, this is a modern, wider infrastructure that provides a couple of logistics options to get across.
Every day, $100 million worth of goods in the automotive sector travels in either direction between Windsor and Detroit, so I think it's probably the best money that could have been spent on infrastructure for the Canadian auto sector.