Government Operations committee  In our statistics, we do not record the products transported. However, I can tell you that, overall, in 2018, 123 accidents involving hazardous materials were reported. This is slightly higher than last year's number of 115, but lower than the average of 126 over the last 10 year

Government Operations committee  Our base budgets are based on historical data. A certain pattern repeats itself from one year to the next. We use this as a starting point and, depending on events, we reallocate resources during the year. If we have more activity in rail than in aviation, we reallocate resources

Transport committee  I'd like to add something, Mr. Aubin, if I may. We assess all of our outstanding recommendations on an annual basis. In fact, we are working on that right now. In late March or early April, the cycle will come to an end. Transport Canada provides us with updates on all the recom

Transport committee  We typically don't have activity data broken down by province, region or facilities. The National Energy Board and Statistics Canada would capture that type of information. We typically capture information about what was shipped and what was spilled, associated with incidents or

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  We don't have accurate and specific data. A lot of the oil that's being refined in Quebec is coming by ship.

Transport committee  Again, that is not for us to determine. Our mandate is very clear; we investigate occurrences. There are regulators, other bodies, other government agencies, that have the responsibility to look at energy products being produced, imported and exported, and to do the oversight. I

Government Operations committee  We've had some particular challenges in recruiting for certain types of expertise, and this varies from year to year, based on demand in the industry. For example, for specialists who work in our lab, it's very specialized, and there is not a large talent pool across Canada to dr

Government Operations committee  Yes, definitely. We have, just in the past year, updated our employment equity plan. We are taking target measures to review our selection criteria to remove any systemic barriers for all the employment equity groups. We've implemented those changes, and we are working with other

Government Operations committee  It is difficult. For example, in the past year we've lost a few of our marine senior investigators who have gone back to industry because they can earn more money over there. We're trying to invest in their professional development, in their learning, to maintain their currencie

Government Operations committee  We're looking at fully achieving the targets outlined in our plan, but we're going beyond that. Instead of saying that everything is 450 days on average, we're saying that there are five types of investigation, from simple to very complex. We've now established—and you will see

Government Operations committee  One example is simply rigorous project management methodology. For each investigation, we identify a team leader, an investigator in charge, who manages a team. However, those team members are involved in multiple investigations simultaneously, so there's the challenge of managin

Government Operations committee  It's about both of them.

Government Operations committee  In terms of the longer plan, we established a strategic plan in 2015-16, a five-year plan to modernize the organization and its business processes. We're halfway through that plan.

Government Operations committee  We're looking at everything. We've looked at our resource base. We figure that we need an extra $3 million to bring it to the right level for the next number of years. We've made that request, which we're discussing today. We've looked at the business process, the project managem