As I mentioned earlier, CATSA has a linguistic profile for each of its positions, and an analysis is conducted to determine whether the position must be bilingual. With the growth in our operations in the regions, 50% of the last positions filled in the past six months were filled by bilingual staff, from Vancouver to Halifax.
Now I'm going to talk to you about screening officers who are not our employees, but who are the employees of companies hired by CATSA to provide the services. Where they are concerned, there are incentives and contractual obligations for service contractors to hire people who are already bilingual.
Recently, our partner, Aeroguard Group, in Vancouver, managed to hire 20 bilingual individuals in the Vancouver region by requesting the aid and support of the francophone communities. In addition, we recently met with all the heads of our four main service contractors. We asked them to go and recruit people from the francophone communities outside Quebec. We had excellent results in Vancouver and Toronto.