I want to make sure I understand, Mr. Keenan. Are these inspectors specifically assigned to the transportation of dangerous goods program?
I have here a QMI Agency article from July 2013, following the Lac-Mégantic tragedy. At that time, Transport Canada stated that it had 101 railway inspectors and that the number had not changed in the previous six years.
However, according to you, the number of inspectors rose from 30 to 130 between 2012 and 2020. So it quadrupled. I am trying to understand, because when I do the math, from 2013 to 2020, only four new inspectors would have been brought in per year, on average.