Transport committee  We applied for the environmental clearance to build additional lanes over the water in mid-2004, and we're in the middle of that environmental process. We had our meetings a month or so ago with all the agencies, from the U.S. and Canada. One of the agencies that are reviewing ou

Transport committee  All our competitors have customs officers at their border crossings. We supply, free of charge, all the facilities for Canada to work at our bridge, all their offices, all their booths, all the janitorial work, and all the utilities--at our expense, 100%. Whatever they ask for, w

Transport committee  Skip just handed me a note. There's one now in the process of being planned with the management of Canada Customs.

Transport committee  Let me first say that the DRIC study identified twinning the bridge on the U.S. side as the number one proposal and said it was the right thing to do. On the Canadian side, the DRIC study partners created an 80-acre plaza in the middle of a community, which created some uproar.

Transport committee  It was never developed by us. The DRIC study on the Canadian side said twinning the Ambassador Bridge brought the most benefit. So don't purport that it came to some other conclusions. The Canadian side, developed by Transport Canada and Ontario, has said, “We don't want to t

Transport committee  It is a joint study controlled by Transport Canada at this stage, and it's why Michigan withheld funding.

Transport committee  Can you ask the question again so I can answer it correctly?

Transport committee  I can't answer that specifically, but whenever the management of Canada Customs has asked us to do any kind of emergency training, we've allowed that to go on. I think you're stating the same thing that was in the paper. The union wants to do something in Windsor. We say, “Go t

Transport committee  We fixed the rates and we supplied those as tariffs to the federal government, both in the U.S. and in Canada. In the past, if there was a complaint, the federal government would contact us. We would go through an explanation of what our tariff was. At one time there was a delay

Transport committee  The issue of hazardous materials has been perpetuated by a number of people who are trying to make a point in Windsor, and I am sure you are aware of this, that we allow things like alum, which is used in drinking water in Windsor and is what you're claiming is a hazardous materi

Transport committee  I would say that whole litigation issue was around ownership and that all of the litigation was dismissed around the ownership issue. So it put to bed, in our view, all of the concerns we had about restricting our ability to own it, restricting our ability to market it if we chos

Transport committee  That's correct, but it does a lot more than that. It goes on to micro-managing our business, besides undoing what the settlement of 1992 accomplished. It goes into getting into a whole lot of areas that the government has never been interested in. We appreciate that when the gove

Transport committee  That's correct, sir.

Transport committee  As I said in my testimony, the same people who are asking, through this legislation, to govern fees and to govern tolls are also competitors of ours. They own and operate bridges. They compete with us--so we see it as a way to control not only the bridges that they own, but also

Transport committee  Yes. There is an article towards the end of the bill that grandfathers an operator. If you're an operator the day before this legislation goes in, you're an operator the day after. But it does not grandfather any of the other issues, and given that we have 77 years invested and h