I'll just answer the last part of your question first. The way we structured our proposal for resources was to do an almost forensic audit of the provincial program to determine how many people they had in place to administer their program, how many operating resources they had, how much equipment they had, and so on.
Essentially what we said was that we would need, in order to deliver similar provisions, roughly the same number of resources, because we're not that much more efficient than the province. We felt that we needed roughly the same number, but we also felt that there were two significant challenges with the provincial program. First, their level of investment in what we consider to be information management was fairly low. We felt that in order to administer this regulation appropriately, we would need resources over and above what the province had in place in the area of information management.
Secondly, we felt that the provincial investment in enforcement was, at least from our perspective, not sufficient to allow us to fully implement what we had in mind for our regulations. So when we prepared our resource request, we took the provincial program as the base, and we added on a resource request for information management and for C and P for enforcement. That was agreed to by cabinet and is in the budget.
We're looking at, since you mentioned it, approximately 55 new people. We probably will have one here in Ottawa to manage the B.C. desk, so to speak, but the remainder will be in British Columbia. At this point our current plans are to have a few in Vancouver, but the majority will be over on the island. We have posted job posters now for 12 different competitions, which we expect will net us approximately 45 people. Those are all posts that are open—several of them have actually closed now. We've done preliminary reviews, and a few are into the screening process.
We've hired three people on Interchange from the province, who have come over on a direct—they just swap over, so to speak. They are in place and have been for about two months now. We're also working through acquiring office space and all the logistics around that. I think we're well and truly along in the process as well. Our expectation is that we'll have our staffing start to come fully into force over the course of the remainder of the fall and into the early winter.