Transport committee  I've been there five years. They've been trying for a permit since the early 2000s to build another Ambassador Bridge.

Transport committee  One of the early reasons in the early 2000s to justify a new bridge, which is now called the Gordie Howe bridge, was that they did a traffic study. The traffic study showed a line going straight up like this. I've never seen a traffic study go like that. It said that the Ambassad

Transport committee  Okay. The second justification for the Gordie Howe bridge was for it to be a redundancy to the Ambassador Bridge. If there's a terrorist attack on the Ambassador Bridge, you have the Gordie Howe bridge. If the Gordie Howe is going to be a redundancy, then you need to have somethi

Transport committee  First of all, our bridge is 89 years old or something like that. It has four lanes. We're not building a new six-lane bridge because of traffic volumes. We're private sector. We looked at all the numbers and everything. In fact, Ron was going to twin his bridge, and because of tr

Transport committee  I'll take a shot, since nobody else seems to want to. That's a good point. In our border world, when we sit down and talk around the bar and have a beer, Ottawa and Washington wouldn't know a border if they tripped over it. I'm glad you're going to the Peace Bridge to take a lo

Transport committee  Perhaps I can follow up on Lew's comments and your additional question there. We do work together. We all work together for the common good. Our goal is to make the border efficient and safe. We have to remember security. You can never question security. I was an OPP officer fo

Transport committee  Good evening, everyone. I'm Stan Korosec. I am the director of Canadian government relations for the Ambassador Bridge.

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. An earlier question was put, I think, to Ron, about customs staffing in plazas. For our new span, the only thing we have to do is build the bridge. The new six-lane bridge will tie into the existing customs plaza. We are going to do some modifications to

Government Operations committee  I haven't read them, sorry, so I don't know.

Government Operations committee  I'd agree with that, especially in section 20.4(1), where you can decide whether it's just a remedy in favour of the complainant or a remedy with discipline. Take that out of there. I don't even know what the purpose of that was. We're talking about education and all that, but yo

Government Operations committee  There is a mechanism for that. When we went through our training on disclosure a couple of years before this even happened, either you could have someone within your organization take the complaints or you could go directly. In a small organization, we chose, as management, to go

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Let me say that I did receive a communication from our CFO—who, by the way, had to move from Sarnia to Slave Lake, Alberta, to find a job, and he's still there—

Government Operations committee  I'm not dissing Slave Lake, but from Sarnia, Ontario, to way up there.... His wife stayed behind. That's what he had to do to find work. He wanted to participate. He started writing up his testimony, but then he just couldn't get through it. That's how badly it affected him. As

Government Operations committee  And it's about time, I think, Mr. Chairman. I've listened to colleagues here and I've read some of the testimony on the website from other things. You have someone here who's been a whistle-blower and was subject to reprisal, and, in my case and my two other colleagues' cases, t