Emerson Duty Free

Documenting Manitoba's largest trade outlet — and how the Province maintains it.

Emerson Duty Free sits at the Emerson/Pembina border crossing on Provincial Trunk Highway 75 — Manitoba's largest trade outlet by far, with over $30 billion in two-way trade every year.

This channel is an unedited, dated public record of how that crossing is maintained by the Province of Manitoba: broken highways, dysfunctional queue-detection technology, subpar planning, and chronic under-maintenance of a $30-billion-plus trade asset the province considers a burden.

Corridor: PTH 75 (Manitoba) / U.S. Interstate 29. Crossing: Emerson, Manitoba (CBSA) / Pembina, North Dakota (U.S. CBP).
https://tdih-cdit.tc.canada.ca/en/addendum-tables/2024/table-ro5-canada-s-road-trade-united-states-busiest-border-crossing-points-0