Thank you for your question.
I'm going to answer in English so I can be more specific.
I do not know the number of complaints. We are not the recipient of complaints. It is the port authorities.
I know that my organization has not, but other organizations have put forward access to information requests to understand the nature of the complaints and have not been able to get that information. I do know from our members that the incidence of complaints has increased in the last five to seven years.
I'll give you an example. I think the challenge that our ports struggle with is that they are seeking to be more consultative with indigenous groups, with communities, with the people and the users in the actual market that they serve. To do so effectively requires lots of documents.
What we're seeing is individuals who have absolutely nothing to do with that—they're not local and they're in the other part of the country—have discovered they can just go on websites and find in a consultation document at the bottom of page 5 a reference to an appendix, and it is in English.
We don't believe that is the spirit of the reason that Official Languages Act obligations were put on Canada port authorities.
We've seen the incidence of these types of complaints increase in recent years, and we think that the perverse impact is that ports now will have an incentive to consult less or provide fewer documents, and that's not where Minister Alghabra wants the industry to go. That's not where the Government of Canada seems to want the industry to go. We are expecting Canada Marine Act amendments that, if anything, will increase the requirements for consultation. The port authorities want to comply, but they want to comply in the spirit of that and not be hijacked by individuals who have discovered that they can make money in this way.