Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, in terms of the risk-based process, it's an evolving process. We are continuously looking at companies. The profile of a company may change from one month to the next, because we look at different criteria. We look at management practices. We look at labour difficultie

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I can advise you that 99.2% of our inspectors have been trained on the new surveillance procedures. All of the new procedures have been documented and distributed, and training has been updated and provided. It's 99.2% because we have a few individuals who have been aw

Public Accounts committee  We have not cut any front-line inspector positions.

Public Accounts committee  No, they have not. We have put our focus on administrative measures—in streamlining, reducing travel expenditures, in accounts payable systems, in consolidating certain administrative functions—but they have not affected the front-line service regulatory requirements that we have

Public Accounts committee  I can assure you that we are actually performing the functions that we set out to do. We have robust plans. We mobilize our resources as they're needed. As I say, we're actively recruiting inspectors to make sure that vacancies are filled as individuals retire.

Public Accounts committee  No. As I say, we are actively recruiting inspectors. There is normal attrition and turnover. We try to recruit from the industry in terms of people who are coming in at second careers. I think our demographic is an older demographic, so it is a challenge we have in terms of peopl

Public Accounts committee  That's correct.

Public Accounts committee  That's correct. Martin, would you like to add to that?

Public Accounts committee  We have responded to the request of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, I believe, as every department has, in terms of the information requested with regard to the reduction measures.

Public Accounts committee  We reported based on our organizational structure. It was not down at the level of the civil aviation program, but I can certainly say, as I think I indicated already, Mr. Chair, we have not reduced any front-line inspector positions in the civil aviation program. There have been

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I'll turn to my colleague, but I will just open by saying that the risk-based process that we have put in place is basically looking at risk indicators, criteria—

Public Accounts committee  For the first question, I think I will turn the floor to Mr. McDonald and Mr. Eley. Do you want to respond to that, please?

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we do have a human resources plan for civil aviation. We have updated it. It's updated regularly. In our view, we feel that we do have a sufficient number of inspectors to perform the functions—

Public Accounts committee  We have 881 inspector positions—

Public Accounts committee  As Mr. McDonald was saying, because of things like people retiring and attrition, we are even currently now in a process of always looking at recruitment and hiring, trying to make sure that our complement is fully achieved, but we feel that the number we have—880 inspector posit