Matty Moroun
Matty Moroun's name is synonomous with the Ambasador Bridge.
But some want that to change, as Anne Jarvis of The Windsor Star reports:
Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority chairman Dwight Duncan, whose job is to get the new, multibillion-dollar Gordie Howe International Bridge built, is recommending the federal government investigate buying the competing Ambassador Bridge, owned by Grosse Pointe billionaire Matty Moroun.
Duncan, the former Ontario finance minister, and bridge authority president and CEO Michael Cautillo have already met informally with Moroun and his son Matthew.
“We had two good meetings,” Duncan said. “I recommended to the government of Canada that it’s worth further discussions.” Duncan says the meetings were prompted by an email from Matthew Moroun to the Toronto Star in February. Moroun stated that his family and the government have been fighting for a decade “unproductively” and they’re “both wrong,” that he’s “inspired” by new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and that the border could be a “shining example of efficiency and cooperation.”
