Mr. Chair, first and foremost, I agree with the concerns raised by the member about past activities in the group. We have wholeheartedly accepted the Auditor General's recommendations, and we have already initiated changes.
I can commit to you, as the deputy minister of the department, that we are committed to ensuring that we have a world-class regulatory agency, both in terms of the development of regulations, in terms of compliance, and in terms of enforcement.
There are some areas where we want to do better and we need to do better. This is one of them. We are committed to creating a more transparent and more inclusive consultation process. We've already launched that, in terms of the regulatory process.
I'll be frank with you: we talk lots. I make a point, for example, whenever I'm travelling in the country, in a region, to sit down with the senior management team. I sit down separately with the front-line inspectors. I ask them what's going on. I want to understand the world of our front line of 1,447 people in Transport Canada who are in direct oversight. I want to ensure that they're actually focused on safety in exercising the discretion that we've given them through legislation and regulation.
We are committed to—