That's where it stops. Most Canadians I've talked to seem to have the idea that a pretty bridge would be nice, but the issue didn't really concern them because it was a governmental matter. The Canadian Position That is the position the Canadian government has taken as well. The people who really matter are the people scattered across eastern Canada and the United States who make, distribute, buy and sell the hundred-million dollars' worth of goods that cross the Peace Bridge every day. There is no difference to them if the bridge that provides the traffic lanes they need is gorgeous or ugly.
Money is all that matters.
John D. Maloney, Canadian member of parliament from Erie-Lincoln, issued a statement on April 7 announcing that even arguing over Peace Bridge design was unacceptable. Not that one side or the other was wrong, but wrangling itself was improper. I am deeply disturbed by the last minute intervention and intimidation for no compelling, supportable or valid reason by political elements in Washington, Albany, and Western New York. It impacts the lifestyle of a forgotten element in the equation, the good people of both our countries who regularly traverse the border. Buffalo and Fort Erie are lucky that they have a bridge and there is all this traffic.