We found that in terms of the overall network, Environment Canada had proposed several cuts, as you've said, to several weather stations, and many of them are automated. There has been a backlog then on how many of those have been closed, and because of that backlog the department is unable to reallocate the resources in order to provide a robust system for the network. There is a question on some of the delay in some of the closures. I think what you're asking is on the stations where there are meteorologists at the regional level. In our report we have not looked at whether that contributed to the overall problems of the network.
On February 10th, 2009. See this statement in context.