The two former members of Parliament, one of them being Paul Zed, the other Doug Young, a former minister of transport, were hired to lobby the federal government to allow the transfer of that port into their hands.
Deux anciens députés fédéraux, Paul Zed et Doug Young, ex-ministre des Transports, ont été engagés pour faire pression sur le gouvernement fédéral afin que ce dernier cède le port aux Américains.