Actually, the resources allocated in the 2007 budget provide for a 50% increase in the number of enforcement officers in the country. In actual figures, that means 106 new enforcement officers in Canada, who are assigned to the various Environment Canada regions. What must be borne in mind is that this is a 50% increase over what we had, and this is really significant and very important.
At present, 80 new officers have already been hired and are already at work in the field. A training session for our new wildlife enforcement officers was just completed in early March. A final training session for our officers working in environment will begin in May and end in early June. At that time there will be a total of 106 new officers operating across the country.
This also enable us to open new offices in locations or sectors where there weren't any up to now, including Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec. This enables us to make a significant increase in our intervention and enforcement capacity in Canada, compared to our earlier capacity.