I'll start with the global figure, and the question of how many inspectors we have on the ground. The answer is that 3,315 staff in CFIA are involved in front line inspection.
As you take that pool of inspectors, we look at what resources have come to the agency in the last couple of years. We go back to 2008 and the food safety action plan. The CFIA received $223 million over five years. So far under that program we have engaged the equivalent of 57 inspectors. Some of them are part time, so the actual number of inspectors is higher than that. Around 120 have come into the agency under that program.
That was followed up last September by the government announcement of $75 million over three years. What that allows us to do on the front line is to hire 70 new inspectors for ready-to-eat meat. So far we've hired 35 of those and we will be hiring another 35 in the coming months, in the next fiscal year. So that's another 70. And now, just in the last week, we have been made aware of an additional $13 million to allow us to hire another 100 new inspectors.
That tallies up to over 200 since 2008.