Mr. Speaker, first of all, I assure the hon. member that Transport Canada has never downsized the number of air inspectors. In fact, there has been an increase of 179 over the last 5 years.
It is important to understand that this study was commissioned by the Department of Transport, and is available under access to information, because the department was concerned about the implications for safety with respect to a lot of the changes going on in the last few years.
As a result we put in place a program to reclassify people and to recruit people for air inspection. ICAO has just completed a study of our air inspection and preliminary reports say the system is—