This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The international bridge project funded by Canada to join Detroit and Windsor has taken a step closer to becoming a reality as the Michigan voters out ruling the motion asking for a statewide vote for approving the expenditure of the project. A majority of exactly 62% voted out the proposal 61-39.
The billionaire owner of the rival Detroit-Windsor Ambassador Bridge, Manuel (Matty) Morou, had oddly spent more than $30-million just to gather resistance against the project. Morou attempted to provoke the region with innumerable ads asking for voters to approve the initiative and block the new bridge. The Executive Director of Michigan Campaign Finance Network, Rich Robinson, explained that “It’s unprecedented” and “It’s beyond my comprehension. This is so far beyond anything we have ever seen.”
Canada has already decided to pay in full for the bridge, taking responsibly of all liabilities and potential cost overruns in an official agreement. The agreement has spent nearly a decade-in-the-making and officially announced too much fanfare, at least on the Canadian side of the border, by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder in Windsor-Detroit in mid-June, making opposition on the U.S. side of the border confounding to some.
The 85-year-old self-made billionaire and owner of the rival 83-year-old Ambassador Bridge, is Cynic-in-Chief. The Ambassador currently enjoys monopoly and earns from twenty-five percent of Canadian-American trade, i.e. about $120-billion, flowing across it each year. The Moroun family gathers a rough estimate of $80-million a year in tolls, duty free gas and shopping sales in their pockets. Allowing a Canadian-financed competitor into the ring could cost Moroun millions of dollars.
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