I'm trying to get a sense about their resources because you've raised a whole series of important questions about resourcing through your brief. I want to go to that for a second, if I could.
I want to set this in context. It's an undeniable fact that the government just cut the budget of Transport Canada by 11%. We've lost $202 million at Transport Canada going forward. That's 11% of the entire department's budget.
Now, we know that this is five months before an election, so we know what really is going on here. It's the shell game around deficit elimination and grabbing money wherever they can to be able to message that out to Canadians. But these are the real front-line effects of the kinds of cuts we're seeing.
I want to raise a second point that you raised, which is on the question of inspectors and inspections. You made the very important point that giving authority to inspectors and others to immediately correct safety problems is one thing; it's an entirely different thing if there are not enough inspectors to perform the safety audits under the safety management systems.
Why don't you expand on that for Canadians, in the context of an 11% reduction in spending at Transport Canada?