The Canadian government rolled out the biggest bazooka in its arsenal Thursday to fire back at U.S. tycoon Matty Moroun’s attempts to block a new international crossing between Windsor and Detroit, the Windsor Star reports.
With only two weeks to go until Michigan voters decide on legislation which could block the new bridge, the Harper government is using a budget bill to aim its own new legislation squarely at the tactics of billionaire Moroun, who owns the Ambassador Bridge.
The purpose of the new legislation, announced at 2 p.m., is to thwart the legal delays employed by Moroun and his trucking empire, which have been waging a multi-year, multi-million-dollar legal and TV advertising campaign to block construction of a competing bridge.
The law would provide the Canadian-led and Canadian-financed project with a blanket exemption for any challenges that the infamously litigious Moroun might launch as a delaying tactic.
