Transport committee  I don't know today. If you want to find that out, I'll be glad to help you. I'll offer this. You're from our area, and we would love to sit down with you and talk through some of the stuff, Mr. Masse. We believe that you could bring some clarity to the border, and we would hope t

Transport committee  Thank you for the opportunity, and we will forward some additional material.

Transport committee  We also have our independent engineers who do the annual inspection give a certificate to the government—which they do get—on the condition of the bridge.

Transport committee  Not in Windsor-Detroit, not since we opened the additional booths in mid-2004. Those traffic delays have gone away. Other than on a periodic basis when customs has a security issue and has stopped a truck for radiation, those backups are gone. I will supply you a memo from the Wi

Transport committee  I would add that we have real-time video cameras and I'd be glad to send you the website address for this. You can look at real-time video of what's happening at the bridge 24 hours a day.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  I would say that ours, as well as everybody else's, cross due to miles and time. Our facility is used by some of our own trucking companies, and so is the Blue Water Bridge, so is the barge, and so is the tunnel. So it's not dedicated. We do not dedicate our own trucking companie

Transport committee  No. We were very negative because, similar to what we said here today, the people who are governing our applications and our process were also governing a study to create their own bridge within a mile. Even after identifying in their own study that twinning the Ambassador Bridge

Transport committee  When you say our “other businesses”...?

Transport committee  For us as a private company, lawsuits and other issues around what we do and what our inspections are would be a concern to us.

Transport committee  I'd like to add that most of the other public crossings were private, or built privately, and it was because they got into financial trouble that the government had to take them over and financially keep them operating, making them public. When our bridge went into bankruptcy bec

Transport committee  But I think for the government to have the right to deny a potential buyer for any reason, including that he is an American, is wrong. If they want the right in statute and regulations to prohibit someone who's not qualified or who is a security risk to Canada, I don't think we h

Transport committee  The government comes to the bridge every year and goes through our inspection reports and asks whatever questions they have. That's why they're there for two or three days. We do not turn over a copy of the inspection reports for the government to take back to Ottawa.

Transport committee  Our association commented on the financial issues, and they commented on how the members all see this bill as having an impact on their ability to finance. I think they supplied a few letters to the committee in reference to that, and we left it up to the association to talk abou

Transport committee  We accept the language, health and safety, and security issues. We're not at all here complaining about those; there should be some uniform procedures at the borders in reference to those issues. It's all of the other issues that the bill spends 80% of its time on that concern us