There are a couple of reasons. First of all, we have a cohort of skilled investigators who are retiring. They've been there for twenty years and so on, and some of them are taking retirement. With all the developments in the federal public service—you could think of Bill C-2 and so on—there is a growing need for investigators in the federal government, so several agencies are competing for people with investigator skills.
There is also the problem of our being a small agency, which tends to mean that people who want promotion are attracted to larger departments where they can proceed up the promotion scale. Some of our able people move on to well-deserved promotions elsewhere that we can't give them because of our size. All of that means we're 40% understaffed in the investigation area.