 The long, suspension-type bridge, which was initially planned to open by 2011, was expected to cost about €5 billion ($7.3 billion CAD).On December 23, 2013, Rizzuto died of complications from pneumonia, which may have been induced by lung cancer, at Sacré-Cœur hospital in Montreal; he was 67.Although his official cause of death was from natural causes, there has been speculation he could have been poisoned, as an autopsy was never performed on his body.