Government Operations committee  What input-output models can give you is a base estimate of the relative magnitudes of stimulus, and that changes over time, so we would have to go back and do a type of simulation based on queries about specific industries to answer that question.

Government Operations committee  We can give relative impact statements, but economists generally take our database and they build econometric models that build behavioural aspects of the economy into their models and then do that type of analysis.

Government Operations committee  I don't have one right now in front of me, but we could respond to those questions.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for inviting us here today. I would like to take a few minutes to give a brief statement about Statistics Canada's role as the national statistics agency and about a few products and databases that may be of interest to this committee. Our m

Environment committee  Thank you for inviting us here today. I am from Statistics Canada, as is my colleague Robert Smith. We would like to make a brief presentation about our environmental statistics program. Then we'll be happy to answer any questions. If that's all right, I will turn it over to my c