Thanks very much, Mr. Carrier.
I think we were driving at not only additional resources but a different way of deploying resources. In other words, there are different skill sets that are required to implement an SMS system. You still have to have the inspector function, but you have to have people who have the skills to implement an SMS system and audit it appropriately. That's where, in my personal opinion, more emphasis could have been given: how are we going to start doing this auditing as opposed to inspecting? I don't know what discussions took place with the Auditor General, but I would have thought that this would have been the first place to start, because the Auditor General carries out government audits and knows what's involved. I'm not sure this happened. They were given as resources, as I remember, two inspectors per region to do the SMS monitoring.
The question is, and I think it's fair to say, we found this difference as we went from region to region. In discussing it with the inspectors we met, without being specific about which region did better than others or seemed to be more in tune, we got a different impression of SMS implementation from region to region. I think that's what we have to address through resources for Transport Canada.