Transport committee  Thank you.

Transport committee  We're respectfully asking for the right to be able to do that and to supply additional information to the committee.

Transport committee  We said clearly we're in favour of health, safety, and security issues. We support what the government wants to do in those instances. We believe we currently go beyond that compared to all the other border crossings. We have armed security on both sides of the border 24 hours a

Transport committee  We had one issue in the 1980s. We increased the commuter rate and had to put it on hold for about 90 days and justify it to...I can't remember which.

Transport committee  That's right. We justified it and put it into effect.

Transport committee  Yes. I think Transport Canada belongs to some of the security committees implemented since 9/11 that our people belong to also.

Transport committee  The answer is yes. I think it was on 9/12 or 9/13 that we had security people in, implementing our own security to protect the bridge. We created a whole department to work with all of the agencies. We have one of our own people who meets with all the agencies in the U.S. and Can

Transport committee  We would be pleased to supply additional information and/or answer any additional questions from each of the members.

Transport committee  I would add that the current system has been and continues to be user-pay. There is no subsidy involved in our operation, as there may be in other bridges. Today the market rates control where we set our tolls, and at the rates today, we've grown to be the number one border cross

Transport committee  Let me answer part of it, if I can, sir. On the competition issue, we're not afraid of competition; we have competition today. What concerns us is that the people who govern our applications, who govern our operation, who govern anything we propose to do at our bridge, are the p

Transport committee  What we agreed to in the settlement—I negotiated that settlement—was to take a blank sheet of paper and start from scratch with Canada Customs and give it things it didn't have anywhere else at the time; to create a test or a pilot, if you will, in Canada for what were at that ti

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  There are annual inspections of our facility.

Transport committee  Yes, and notwithstanding what you continue to read in the paper for the history of the bridge, we supply those annual inspections to the federal government. In fact, they send down a few people every year to go through that inspection report and spend time with our maintenance st

Transport committee  That's my understanding.