Friday, January 8, 2010

Stephen Harper officially opens New Bridge in St. Stephen

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in St.Stephen today to officially open the new border crossing. Premier Graham and several of his cabinet ministers will join the PM along with officials from the State of Maine.


The Province has invested $60.5 million dollars in the project which includes 23 km's of new highway which stretches from Waweig to the new border crossing. The ceremony is expected to get started at 1:30pm. The new crossing and highway opened back on November.16th. Following the ceremony in St. Stephen, Harper will travel to Saint John where he is hosting a roundtable at the Delta at 5:30pm.