Transport committee  The total cost of the bridge component is roughly about a billion dollars. On either side, of course, we have to have customs plazas, both on the Canadian side and on the American side, and then on the Michigan side there is an interchange that connects to the interstate system.

Transport committee  Except under the previous eight, where we had one environmental group on the environmental assessment, all of them have been launched by the owners of the Ambassador Bridge—

Transport committee  They definitely are not meant to speed up the project, that's for sure. Most of them are aimed at stopping or delaying the project, and that's why we are defending them so vigorously.

Transport committee  It's a huge variable. When we consult with the P3 market, they ask us to address certain conditions: to ensure that we have the environmental assessments completed, that we have acquired all the properties that are required for a project, and that all the risks related to the pro

Transport committee  That's correct. Any approval that's given by a federal agency can be challenged in Federal Court for judicial—

Transport committee  Under this law, yes, it's for the environmental—

Transport committee  There are several portions in the act, several clauses, that refer to a plan having to be filed under the Fisheries Act, the Species at Risk Act, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, and the Navigable Waters Protection Act.

Transport committee  Correct.

Transport committee  He was. He would like to be able to have that kind of flexibility on the U.S. side.

Transport committee  Yes. We are trying to provide as much certainty as possible to the P3 market that, as the project moves forward to construction, these are the permits that are required to proceed with construction. By having this bill passed, that certainty will be provided to them, and there wi

Transport committee  Yes, with pleasure. Just to reconfirm some of the figures you mentioned, every day 400,000 people cross at this crossing, and that's almost $2-billion worth of goods and services crossing at Windsor-Detroit on a daily basis. On an annual basis, this corridor handles almost 30%

Transport committee  The process examined 15 corridors—

Transport committee  —between what we'll call southwestern Ontario and to the south, east, and north of Detroit. We narrowed it down to three options in the vicinity of where the bridge is going to be located now. That was following the environmental approval processes in both Canada and the U.S. In

Transport committee  It was concluded and approved, yes.

Transport committee  I'll just mention the numbers against Canada, those that involve Canada directly. We had, up until last year, eight challenges in total: six legal challenges and two trade challenges. At present we are still defending the two trade challenges and three ongoing legal challenges, f