Transport committee  If I may, what you're reading is something that tries to accommodate a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada between the Vancouver Port Authority and the City of Vancouver. We've noticed this pattern across the country: the port authorities are in conflict with local communities.

Transport committee  Our problem is that the port authorities, in the way their governance is set up, are focused so exclusively on the federal government's interests—which in Toronto don't exist, because it's local interests only that are being served by our port—they forget the rest of the community's interests.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the committee. Ten years ago the Government of Canada made a serious mistake, a mistake that has had devastating consequences to the city of Toronto and its citizens. That mistake was to include the Toronto port in the list of port authorities under the Canada Marine Act.