Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  We work with data and we do our analysis based on data. We cannot do analysis based on the assertions by employers associations. To us, that's not solid evidence. Any program in order be designed well needs to have the data to determine whether there's a labour shortage. In fact, we have a lot of data on the labour supply in Canada, which the government actually uses to determine regional unemployment rates for the management of the EI program, but we do not collect any information on labour demand, which is really critical in this case because once you have that, then the program can be targeted to regions and professions that show that kind of a shortage.

Finance committee  No.