The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority says a number of statements made in an ad by the Ambassador are 'fiction.'
"There are a number of things in this video which are fiction. In actual fact, they are not truthful," says authority spokesperson Mark Butler.
As AM800 News reported Thursday morning, the TV ad paid by the Ambassador Bridge Company appeals to U.S President Donald Trump asking him to kill an exemption from the 'Buy American' policy for steel to build the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
It also claims the bridge is Canadian, but Butler says the new bridge will be publicly owned by the governments of Canada and Michigan.
It also claims that only Canadian workers will be working on the bridge and Butler says that's false.
"Again nothing further far the truth from that because, in actual fact, we already have Canadians and American working on the preparatory works," he says.
Butler says there is also an innuendo that the steel would be coming from someplace other than in Canada. He says they do have a 'buy American waiver' but he says the steel or iron used for the bridge will be sourced from Canada and/or U.S.
He says the authority's focus is still clear.
"We are not going to be distracted by this. We are making great strides, we have committed to starting construction of the bridge in 2018 and we are on target to do that."
Clearing of land and property on both sides of the border is well underway.
Butler expects an announcement 'soon' on the proponent for the new Gordie Howe Bridge.