Transport committee  Thank you very much. Good morning to everyone, and thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. I am the CEO of the Grape Growers of Ontario and also sit on the board of directors for the Buffalo and Fort Erie Peace Bridge Authority, which owns and operates the Peace Brid

Transport committee  We're not experiencing any of that at the Peace Bridge. These are very early days and there has been very good—

Transport committee  We are in the very early days. There has been good communication between Canada and the U.S. Obviously this is a commercial corridor, so any impediments would be certainly things that we have taken into consideration. We're not anticipating any issues that will evolve from the ca

Transport committee  There are always inspections and we have to do our due diligence and be prudent, but I think the question you asked me was “What is the impact?” and to date there has not been one.

Transport committee  Exactly, so your question, probably.... I could come back and you could ask me in a year's time, but today—

Transport committee  We absolutely are.

Transport committee  It's trade—the ability for two countries to have access to those economies is the importance of that—as well as tourism. There are huge tourism opportunities when you have Niagara Falls on both sides of the bridge. You have the American falls; you have the Canadian falls. That t

Transport committee  That's the impact on the Canadian side, yes.

Transport committee  Just the Canadian side, yes.

Transport committee  That was an assessment—what we would call a preliminary assessment—of the feasibility of the mid-peninsula corridor. There was so much pressure locally. We were able to get, in my previous political life, locally, an assessment of the potential of the highway. Of course, that wou

Transport committee  Thank you very much. I think what I was referring to was part of the mid-peninsula corridor. When I refer to it as a “corridor”, I'm referring to the opportunities for a mode of transportation that could be road, rail and, in our case, the Welland Canal. The opportunity is to bl

Transport committee  There are always delays on our bridge due to construction, accidents, inspections—all sorts of things. We have—

Transport committee  I was going to say that we have pre-clearance for trucking so there's a lot less delay when it comes to the trucks on our Peace Bridge. Thank you.

Transport committee  It goes back to some of the history of this country. What connected us initially was rail. The railway took us from one end of the country to the other. In between, we have built highways and airports. We have the Welland Canal, which dates back to the early twenties. We have an

Transport committee  I'm taking up too much of your time.