Long-Haul Interswitching (LHI) - How to Authorize Someone Who is Not a Lawyer to Represent Your Company

Instructions

If you are a shipper applying for LHI and you want someone from outside your company, who is not a lawyer, to represent you in the LHI adjudication, you must formally authorize that person to be your company's representative. You must also send us the authorization document. You can create a document using these instructions:

1. Give your document this title: Authorization of Representative
2. Include the following basic information in the document:
   • Your company name
   • The company name of your Local Carrier
   • The name of the person you are authorizing to be your representative, along with their complete address, phone number, and (if possible) e-mail address and fax number
   • If you will be sending a copy of the Authorization of Representative document to anyone other than us, include the name and e-mail address of each of those people (or their fax numbers, if you will be sending to them by fax).
3. Include the following statements in the document:
   • A statement saying "[Shipper company name] authorizes [representative's name] to act on its behalf in this Long-Haul Interswitching adjudication before the Canadian Transportation Agency."

• A statement from the representative, saying "I agree to act on behalf of [shipper company name] in this Long-Haul Interswitching adjudication before the Canadian Transportation Agency."