First of all, this 1,400 number includes three kinds of inspectors. They include inspector pilots, as referred to by Mr. Laframboise; they include technical inspectors, TIs; and they include engineers. In the early 1990s, the time Judge Moshansky referred to, or at the time when we had 1,400, the 1,400 were the 1,400 inspectors in Transport Canada. Since then, we have transferred the air navigation system to Nav Canada. A number of people, especially the civil aviation inspectors who flew aircraft, went to Nav Canada and continued to do the work they were doing, but that significantly reduced the 1,400 number.
Another big bunch of people counted are still with us, but they're not counted in the 866 because they work under another one of my organizations, the aircraft services organization located at the airport. These people teach the inspectors how to fly and they teach them how to do maintenance on the aircraft. So these people are still with Transport Canada, but they're located elsewhere in the organization.
So the core number of 866 we're talking about now, I could say without hesitation, was smaller in the nineties, because since the mid-nineties we have added. I know because I was the original director of civil aviation in the Quebec region, and I saw the number of inspectors I had increase between 1994 and 1997 and then further increase. When I took charge of civil aviation, I had about 130 inspectors in the Quebec region. When I left, I had 174 employees in total, so I had seen an increase.
The same thing occurred elsewhere, because after the Moshansky inquiry, the government decided to allocate additional resources to the regulatory program, as it was called before.