Canada Offers Detroit $550 Million

Today, the Canadian government offered Detroit $550 Million toward its portion of a new Detroit River Bridge. The project is called DRIC (Detroit River International Crossing), the new publicly owned bridge would compete with privately owned Ambassador Bridge. Baird (Canadian Minister of Transportation), in a statement to Governor Granholm stated; "Given the importance of this new crossing to the economic security and future prosperity of the United States and Canada, on behalf of the government of Canada, I am pleased to inform you that Canada is prepared to increase its financial participation in the DRIC (Detroit River International Crossing) project."

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