question as well. let s go to the front lines in canada for the very latest to glenn mcgregor, senior political correspondent with ctv national news. live from the capital of ottawa. i m so glad you re here to talk about this because i ve got to tell you, we re hearing about this and watching it. people here stateside should know and hopefully realize this impacts the u.s. and it impacts all of north america. what are you seeing there? yeah, the impact is enormous for that trade that flows back and forth between canada and the u.s., particularly at the border crossing, the ambassador bridge that connects windsor, ontario to detroit, michigan. as you said in your introduction, it s crucial to the auto industry. canada and the u.s. auto industries are extremely integrated, and their just in time delivery business is. so if parts don t arrive right when they re supposed to, the assembly lines stopped and they have to sometimes shut down shifts. auto workers lose work. and it s a bad sit
what to do? it s interesting what heidi said. if we focused the stimulus money i think was ill-spent since early 2009, on upgrading our energy infrastructure, particularly the electrical grid, it would cost about a trillion dlashgs but add high paying, high value jobs that would have spinoff effects on the economy going forward you could bring in disenfranchised auto workers and others to work on this grid and provide real jobs, like the hoover dam, interstate highways, that s something that could be done now and they have given it short shrift. the president has called for doing that. investing in the future. i recall during the problem really with auto sales around the globe, wasn t germany investing in its infrastructure, weren t putting so many off the line there, the manufacturing line, but they started investing in themselves and the companies moving forward. our companies have plenty of cash. we don t have a cash problem or liquidity problem at the corporate level.