In the short term we have to hire more staff. We can't put through six officers on an English course. It's not sustainable.
I have looked at the departures already this year just in the centre, and I can see right now six departures within the year. Those people have to come from somewhere. We have six in the college now, and that's to just tap the surface of what we lost over the past four years.
We have to hire more, and we have to build capacity at the Canadian Coast Guard College in Sydney, with instructors. Those instructors have to be trained and experienced MCTS officers. It's a double-edged sword as regions aren't releasing officers to instruct at the college because they are short-staffed.