That's a very challenging question.
Obviously, there needs to be more money applied to the hiring of inspectors. We have too few now. If we have too few now, obviously, when you add more work for those inspectors, it's going to create a problem, and Bill C-6 will not fulfill its objectives. It's impossible at this point to say how many inspectors will be required, because we don't know the volume of work that is going to be added for these individuals. We were discussing that today, as to the number we could put out as for the number of inspectors or how much money would be appropriate to apply to that, but we couldn't come up with a reasonable number, something we could support, other than knowing that we don't have enough now and we need more.
With the number of retirements coming along, we need to have the ability to transfer the knowledge of our inspectors. It takes time to develop an inspector. When you come out of university with a science degree, or even after you've been working in industry for a few years, you can't walk into the role of a product inspector and do that job from day one. You need to develop in that position.
The government is going to be in a very difficult position if we have a lot of inspectors retiring. We have too few now, and then you add work for them to do. All we can say is that this needs to be addressed as part of the process of implementing Bill C-6, if it's passed.