Thank you very much.
Actually, I do appreciate the fact that the minister is staying for the duration of the meeting.
I want to go back to a couple of issues that have been raised, first of all, to one by Mr. Jean, who has referred again to the allocated inspector positions that I referred to earlier on.
Mr. Jean noted that over the course of the last 13-odd years the number of inspector positions had actually increased. I thank him for seeing that. However, the question I had asked was whether there was a reference--and I know I'm repeating myself, so Mr. Grégoire will probably provide us with this information later on--on whether these numbers of inspectors have kept pace with the increase in the number of flights and flight miles.
I'm being non-partisan here. It is important for us to address an issue that's been raised on many an occasion, and that is, if the safety management systems that you are proposing, Mr. Minister, are going to add some validity, they have to be measured against the inspectorate's abilities to get the job done for Canadians under Transport Canada's mandate.
If you would be so good as to tabulate those figures for us so that we have a good sense, I'd appreciate it.