Certainly, talking from the Peace Bridge perspective, yes, absolutely. We've been talking about a trade corridor for the last 20 years. If you talk to any of the border crossing operators, I think they'll say the same thing. Absolutely there's an appetite, because we've recognized that's the only way the border works.
Again, you have to go back to what I said earlier. It can't be just a trade corridor that's here. You have to deal with western New York. You have to deal with the United States because it doesn't work if you're only doing half a loaf. It's about whole loaves. Sometimes I think we forget that there's a big picture but that it starts with doing some little things that make a lot of sense and with having an understanding as to what Canadian policy means for the border.
For example, the NAFTA discussions are under way right now. If Canada changes the de minimis requirements under NAFTA, that could have a tremendous impact on the border, maybe not a positive one for the Canadian economy, but as a border crossing operator we could get a lot of revenue if the de minimis goes from $20 to $400. Most of the Canadian population is within a couple of hundred miles of the border. They may very well flood across the border, but what does that mean for the retail sector? For us, it's great. It's more toll revenue. It does all of those things. Again, there has to be an understanding of what that means.
It's the same thing with the carbon tax. If the carbon tax raises the gas price by 40¢ or 50¢ a gallon, you're going to see people going across the border to shop. That's not the same thing as Americans coming over here, which is what I think you really want to see when you have a trade corridor: that it works well both ways.
While we certainly want to be a participant in there, understand what Canadian policy-makers need to understand about how that works and do the little things that make sense. It doesn't make any sense for the national transportation corridor fund, which the government...and we're the beneficiary of that. We're getting $2.5 million. It's a small amount of money in the overall scheme of things. We're putting in RFID in every lane. Did you know that CBSA didn't even know that we were getting that money? We talk about understanding what somebody else is doing. They didn't even know we were doing that. One arm of the government doesn't know what the other arm of the government is doing. That's frustrating.