Transport committee  Yes, we do. There is a draft limitation in the Fraser River site of the Vancouver Fraser port as well because of the river.

Transport committee  About $12 million a year.

Transport committee  Thank you. In terms of whether we would have been able to go ahead faster, we're actually very fortunate that this act is being changed just as we're entering into this period of very heavy commitments financially. It wouldn't really have helped us earlier on. Obviously, you buil

Transport committee  Yesterday.

Transport committee  If I may, I don't want to break the unanimity of this group in front of you, but I might just be going to do that. When we put a piece of infrastructure in place, like a terminal, it's there for about a hundred years. It's a long-term vision that you need before you do that. Up

Transport committee  I have spoken to the president of the Canadian area of the ILWU. We told them this was going to happen and asked whether he would be supportive of these changes. As he said before, many times, they are very, very supportive of anything that will help the ports grow. Obviously, it

Transport committee  Thank you, Patrice. In Vancouver Fraser, our borrowing limit is $510 million. Currently, we have two-thirds of that committed, but we have up until now managed to pay for it with our own investments, etc. This year, for the first year, we've made an arrangement for $175 million

Transport committee  If I may interject as well, because it's federal land, we are subject to the environmental assessment process, while a private business isn't. So our development process is much longer than for a private business; it's not shorter.

Transport committee  Thank you very much. There are a lot of initiatives we've done. Again, this new port authority is 28 days old, so I can only use the history of the other ones, especially Vancouver, where I came from. We were very active in communities such as Abbotsford and Langley. In fact, w

Transport committee  No. We went to the municipalities and made sure they knew that the amendments were under way and that Bill C-23 was there, because there has been some discussion in the lower mainland on the new port authority. They wanted three appointees instead of one. They're not representa

Transport committee  Again, as Sean has alluded to, you can only talk about your own port, because we don't really know what goes on at the others. We have always taken a position that as a crown corporation, we don't compete with private industry. So we would be very unlikely to start a business if

Transport committee  Thank you. Actually, as Sean said earlier, it is clear in the policy statement that you have to have community support for your land use plan. The land use plan is the document a municipality would call its development plan. It's a similar document. So we have to go to them and

Transport committee  That's a very good question. You are right. In fact in the Vancouver lower mainland all three levels of government have some form of authority over access to the port, as it comes through various municipal, provincial, or even federal roads. We are required, as ports, to have a

Transport committee  Thank you very much. You're right about the amalgamation. It caused us to look at the model we have for liaising with municipalities. In fact we're developing what we call our “municipal liaison forum”, which is going to be an annual conference with boards and councillors and th