Yes, there's a direct relationship. Transport Canada is having difficulty in not only recruiting, but also retaining qualified aircraft maintenance and manufacturing inspectors. Simply, the wages are too low. They recruit from the airline industry, where the wages are up to $25,000 more per year than a government aircraft maintenance and manufacturing inspector. The wage gap and the challenges to recruit were recognized by the former deputy minister of Transport Canada, Louis Ranger, when he did his presentation last year before the government operations committee. So Transport Canada itself recognizes there's a serious problem in this area.
Additionally, I don't think it comes as any surprise that we have a very archaic classification system. An inspector within our group, an AMM inspector, makes considerably less than a co-worker who is a civil aviation pilot inspector doing the same job. This certainly creates problems within the workplace.