Thank you, Mr. Chair. The department did carefully examine all of the areas of our mandate. We were, of course, directed by the Cabinet to look for places where we could make sensible and sustainable reductions.

This department has actually only been in existence less than three years in total. We thought that perhaps, as the former federal area of jurisdiction and our area of jurisdiction came together, there might be areas where we could rationalize our operations, so that is how the whole of our budget was looked at.

There have been concerns raised, and I have heard them before, about reducing the travel for inspectors. That specifically was done as there simply, because of the slowdown in the economy, was not enough work out there. The number of inspectors has not been reduced, and, certainly, if there was to be a great increase in the amount of work, we could increase the number of inspections that we would need to do. In fact, that would probably be good because that would be an indication of an improving economy.

With those words, we do look forward to entertaining your questions. Thank you, Mr. Chair.