I know it has been a contentious issue for the people of Quebec City as well, so I'm glad to see that the government is taking steps on that after a long time waiting.
I also want to talk a little bit about inspectors. We've received some statistical information on Transport Canada safety inspectors. I think all members have a copy of this in both languages. We've heard a lot of speculation from time to time in relation to the deletion of inspectors. From this chart, it looks like in 1992-93 we had 576 inspectors, and today we have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 873, so there has been quite an increase in the number of inspectors.
I was wondering if the department or Monsieur Grégoire could continue on with his explanation as to why there has been the change in the number of inspectors.