The short answers would be, yes and yes. I would add, just to elaborate on this point—because I think it's a really important one—that when you have a number of objectives and one of them is safety, you need to determine where safety sits among those objectives. In the operating priorities of the department and according to the direction of the minister, safety is first. In an organization of 5,000 people, as a senior leader, as the deputy minister of the organization, you'll come across a manager who's working with a company that has a safety problem. An inspector might be trying to decide when to take the next step of action on that company.
I do two things as a deputy minister. First, I trust my inspectors and I don't direct them, because that's inappropriate. We emphasize strongly that a safety inspector's job is safety. Some inspectors will be concerned that if they issue an order it could put a struggling company under. But their job is safety, and they have to worry about safety first. These considerations may be valid, but you have to put safety as number one. When we see employees struggling or thinking about trade or the economy, we remind them that they're in the safety business.
Of the 1,447 employees involved in safety oversight in the department, I would say that the vast majority understand that they're in the safety business and safety is job one. We try to reiterate that wherever possible because it's essential to the mission of Transport Canada. We're trying to be a world-class regulator, and in that context, it's safety first.