Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon, Minister. It's always a pleasure for us to see you here presenting your bills, which are important. The Bloc Québécois will support the bill, which we find positive on the whole. However, we nevertheless still have some minor reservations about granting additional powers to port authorities enabling them to lease the lands they acquire for future use.
Following the testimony of a councillor of the City of Toronto, we learned that there was quite a conflict between the city's orientation and that of the port authority, two administrations that do not work together or jointly.
In your presentation, you cited a very interesting example, that of the Vancouver-Fraser Port Authority. It has formed a municipal liaison forum to ensure that the community's viewpoint is understood and taken into consideration. I find that quite logical.
You say in your presentation that the needs of the municipalities are obviously taken into consideration in port-related activities. That's a nice statement, but I wonder whether the bill provides for certain mechanisms. Will there be a mechanism to ensure that, before they go ahead, the projects presented by the port authorities to security federal funding receive the consent of the municipality?