Let me address that, then. The notification for this meeting arrived at my office short of a council meeting, which means we'd have had to call an emergency council meeting to take a position on the specifics of this bill.
Your decision not to hold hearings across the country in ports where there is friction between the local authority and ports is a decision that you took on your own. So we arrive here on short notice and we seek to address some of the positions being put forth in this proposed legislation.
So I speak, yes, as a member of city council, in consistency with the positions my council has taken, but also as a local representative representing a waterfront community. You raised four issues that I'd like to address.