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We understand that Port Metro Vancouver therefore takes the position that after many years of providing container trucking services to the port, our clients will summarily be denied further access to the port as ofFebruary I,20I5.
As a result, our clients now face the prospect of the sudden and total destruction of their businesses which are wholly dependent on access to the porl, including the loss of their investment in specialized container truck equipment suitable only for use at the port and the layoff of large numbers of employees.
In our view, the new TLS has clearly been implemented in a manner which violates our clients' rights and further, is paft of a statutory framework which is constitutionally unsound.
The facts which demonstrate the grossly unfair nature of the process overseen by Port Metro Vancouver include the following:
1. While structural changes at the port have been under discussion since the work stoppage by container truck drivers last spring, our clients were only advised of what the new TLS
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would consist of when the Local Drayage TLS Handbook (the "TLS Handbook") was released on December 9,2014.
2. In previous years, the license renewal process consisted of an online application which required applicants only to confirm their basic information, provide proof of valid insurance and proof of ownership of any new trucks added to the company fleet, and pay a $300 per truck fee in order to obtain their new license.
3. The TLS Handbook imposed an entirely new set of requirements on license applicants, many of which are onerous.
4. On January 16, 2015, Port Metro Vancouver announced that it would no longer be accepting new applications. As a result, our clients had a matter of less than 5 weeks over the Christmas vacation period in which to familiarize themselves with the new application process and submit their applications.
5. On or about January 26,2015, only 5 days prior to the expiry of their current licenses, our clients were notified that their applications had been denied and that their access to the port, and therefore their businesses, were at an end.
6. In voluntary 'de-briefing' meetings offered by Port Metro Vancouver, our clients learned for the first time how the criteria set out in the TLS Handbook had been applied, including the use of a points system in respect of the "Additional Entry Criteria", which was not r