Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I'm going to share my time with Mr. Armstrong.
One of the interesting issues that I heard in the opening statement was that the ratio of health and safety officers was 1:6,000, and now it's 1:8,000. At first blush, you would assume that workers' health and safety are at risk because of those numbers, but actually, if you look at a graph of where we've gone with work-related injuries in Canada, we've gone from a high of about 50 in 1990, down to 14.7 today. Therefore, it's not a direct relationship with the health and safety officers and the numbers of them, but more the consultations between the supervisor-employer and the employee who has worked. I think we heard that from the testimony of Mr. Beckett.
We seem to be stuck on the process here, but we're discussing the bill. I can understand there is a process that has been used in the past.
Mr. Beckett, have you ever said to a health and safety officer or to the department, “We're having a little bit of a challenge with the number of cases with regard to interpretations of danger that have maybe caused a lot of anxiety in the workplace, and maybe we need to tighten that up a little bit or there needs to be more clarification”? Have you ever said that to a department official who is doing an inspection or whatever, just to—