It's very important, and I appreciate the opportunity to follow up on my response to the committee and to provide further insight into this important issue. I have two parts to the answer if I may.
Inspector numbers do fluctuate. I'm happy to be more transparent about them. We intend to put those up on our website on a regular basis. Seasonal activities, summertime, are more intense. We'll have more seasonal inspectors for cash crops, those sorts of things. Most recently over the winter months with the bovine tuberculosis outbreak there was a need to reassign resources to deal with that emerging issue. So the numbers do move. That is part of the reality and an expectation of this committee that we are nimble and moving to where the risks are to best protect and serve Canadians. So we will do that absolutely moving forward in as transparent a way as we can to make sure that people are confident about what risks they are seeing and where we are deploying our resources.
With respect to adjustments to our budget, I can assure the committee that all of them are related to sunsetting programs, to time-limited initiatives like the introduction of electronic service delivery platforms. Where we used to manually do import and export certificates, those are now being automated, done online. People are able to self-serve so that we don't have to have people doing that. We have a number of resources dedicated to standing up of those sorts of infrastructure. There was also money to invest in our labs. The reductions are planned. They are related to sunsetting programming, and we are making every effort to preserve our inspection resources and prioritize them and not touch them with any of the reductions moving forward.