Public Safety committee  For the Gordie Howe International Bridge, the planning right now that's going forward is for the customs to be at the typical places, so classic clearance as opposed to pre-clearance.

Public Safety committee  That's not to say that in the future you couldn't do cargo pre-clearance. Right now, the way it's being set up is with the U.S. customs plaza on the Canadian side and the Canadian customs plaza on the U.S. side, which is your standard set-up for classic clearance.

Public Safety committee  There was a question asked earlier about why we aren't pushing ahead with cargo pre-clearance now. Besides the fact that the agreement isn't in force yet, the other issue is, of course, that we have to learn how to do cargo pre-clearance. We don't have the decades of experience t

Public Safety committee  Just to break it down, there are two fundamental kinds of costs. There's the infrastructure costs, and that's for building equipment and counters and that kind of stuff. All facilities have in the past paid for those, and all facilities in the future will continue to have to pay

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  The government is concerned about the cost of travel, air travel in particular. That isn't specifically related to pre-clearance, though. That's pretty much a separate issue.

Public Safety committee  The number of passengers pre-cleared has been growing at the same rate as passengers headed to the U.S. That follows economic changes. The value of the dollar has a big effect. It tends to be quite responsive to economic factors such as those, but year on year there has been stea

Public Safety committee  I can't give you an exact number.