Reader letter: What it took to build 'the Gordie' bridge

Published Jul 20, 2024 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 1 minute read

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is shown on May 23, 2024. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star

Matty Moroun, owner of the Ambassador Bridge, tried to stop the Gordie Howe International Bridge every way he could.

He tried to get American Republican lawmakers to vote to stop it. There was an election in Michigan and Moroun supported candidates who were against the Gordie.

Republican candidate for governor Rick Snider was for it, and we are very lucky he won that election. Governor Snider found a way to go around Michigan’s Republican-controlled Senate, supported by Moroun, which voted against the Gordie, and that bridge got built.

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Moroun bought property in Delray, Mich., to get in their way and it was expropriated, but it was another holdup. If Moroun hadn’t fought the Gordie it would have been built before COVID. I’d like to shake ex-governor Snider’s hand.

And the Gordie would never have gotten built if Canada didn’t agree to pay for it all, plus all the Michigan highway interchange work too. The U.S. cried poor.

Jerry Gervais

Windsor

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