Thanks, Mr. Minister.
There's been a general theme throughout the sessions that I've either been sitting on as a witness or listening to; it's an underlying belief that this is about reductions. The budgets haven't changed, as the minister has said.
The speech to which Mr. Laframbroise referred was about our expected retirements. The fact that we even know we're looking at a 46% potential retirement by 2013 is enough indication for us to start taking action to make sure we replace the people we need.
On focused inspections, risk assessment is a rather technical document, and the recommendations in that—as Mr. Julian rightly said—have been signed off by me and will be put into effect. In fact, the whole protocol we're using as we transition to the SMS—and as I mentioned before, it's a three-year program and we're doing this very cautiously—is well developed right now.
If I had the full staff instruction in French I would be presenting it today, but this gives you an idea. No, I didn't pad it. It's a very in-depth approach. We're going to be questioning officials and individuals in the companies, and if there's any doubt about what's going on we'll be following up. If there is any indication that we need to get more information from doing the classic inspection programs, we are more than equipped and able to take that into account, and we will be doing it.
This is a more rigid regime than the one before.