From: "Randy" 

Try ex-pats living in Windosr and commuting to Detroit to work.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>A lot of those Canooks are coming here to get better health care, not just
> shopping ! 
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>> This area gets a lot of business from our Canadian friends. The number of
>> cars with Canadian plates at our malls is a truly wondrous thing to
> behold.
>> The Bridge has serious backlogs and that does affect the bottom line.
>> $800
>> million a month is nothing to sneeze at
>>
>> http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/1115/134_print.html
>>
>> After 9/11 the Ambassador loomed as an undefended economic umbilical cord
> to
>> the U.S. Within days hundreds of National Guardsmen, police volunteers
>> and
>> U.S. customs and immigration agents descended on the bridge, forcing
> trucks
>> to wait in line for up to 12 hours to be searched for any signs of a
> terror
>> plot. Traffic backed up for 15 miles. Even after terror alert levels
>> fell,
>> the jams have persisted. Daily truck traffic plunged from 10,000 to 9,000
>> and hasn't climbed back. Security remains tight, and trucks still can
>> wait
>> an hour to cross. Delays at the Ambassador and other crossings into
>> Canada
>> cost $800 million a month, by one economist's reckoning. If terrorists
>> knocked out the Ambassador, the Michigan and Ontario economies could run
>> losses of $3 billion a month.
>>
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> > Yea, I've caught a bit about that in my peripheral vision, something
> about
>> > tolls collected on the bridge and him not being accommodating about
>> > competition for the tokens. But I am curious as to why we'd want to
> build
>> > more access between CA and US -- they claim we're
"cowboys" and want
>> > nothing to do with us and none of the loudmouths that promised to move
>> > north after Bush won were serious -- so why not button up the border
> tight
>> > like the Minuteman project is trying to do in the south?
> > the Ambassador bridge to Japan to build a few new Lexi>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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