Ottawa girds for legal battle over new Windsor-Detroit bridge
December 14, 2011
The following is excerpted from the 13 December 2011 edition of The Globe and Mail.
The Canadian government is considering the extraordinary step of using an act of Parliament to shield the new Windsor-Detroit bridge project from lawsuits launched by owners of an existing crossing.
Canada and the United States last week signalled a new era of co-operation on their joint border with a deal on perimeter security, but the agreement unveiled was light on details of how much new crossing infrastructure would be built to expedite two-way trade...
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