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February 21, 2008

Canada: bridge comment "misunderstood"

A comment made last week by a Canadian border official about a partial opening of an international bridge in Calais was apparently "misunderstood" on this side of the border.

At a Feb. 12 meeting of shareholders of the new $120 million bridge spanning the St. Croix River, an official from the Canada Border Services Agency reportedly said that Canada would not agree to a partial opening of the bridge to commercial traffic by 2009 -- an agreement U.S. officials already though they had, according to the Bangor Daily News. However, those comments were apparently "misunderstood" by the United States, according to an email sent to Calais' city manager from the town manager of St. Stephen, N.B., and acquired by the Daily News.

The Canadian Border Service Agency "continues to be fully willing, if it is practical, to open the third bridge to commercial traffic, even as early as December 2008," the email says.

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