Why Canada and the U.S. can’t agree on opening the Gordie Howe Bridge

“The whole reason this is being done, the whole reason it was so hard to do, was because Matty Moroun and his family have a monopoly on the busiest border crossing in the world, which is obviously a bottleneck for many people, and if you’re looking at post-financial crisis, you have to remember this is post 2008/2009, we’ve just seen the auto industry teeter, almost crater, and the whole thing that we were trying to do was facilitate trade across the border, and the single biggest ask of any exporter anywhere in Southern Ontario was more capacity to go across the bridge and to not have to deal with Matty Moroun, if possible.”