Industry committee  We did.

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  There's none.

Industry committee  Perhaps I could talk about the Canadian Research Data Centre Network. There are about 26 centres at the moment. They're established in universities across Canada. It's a partnership we're quite proud of. The funding is a combination from Statistics Canada, from the research and g

Industry committee  That's where I was going to. Statistics Canada isn't levying charges. Most of the researchers in those research data centres are not paying for access. If somebody came along who was not affiliated with that particular university and said they wanted to have access, then it would

Industry committee  I'm not aware of a case where this has arisen. The kind of data that we have in the research data centres require analytical skills and capacity that are not commonly available outside the universities.

Industry committee  We have it. I don't have it with me, but I'd be happy to provide it. We can tell you for various age groups how many people are not in employment or not in education or training.

Industry committee  It's a number that you can calculate from published sources. It is available.

Industry committee  No. There are some points where some people might want to debate me, but in general, Statistics Canada has had a strong convention in Canada of political independence, of independence for the statistical office, and successive governments, generally speaking, have respected that

Industry committee  As you intuited, one of the problems is definition. It's an abiding frustration of mine that there is a standard classification of industries and, of course, it doesn't really correspond to evolving trends in industrial production. Everybody makes up their own and defines them th

Industry committee  I'm just saying that part of the problem is definitional. The data that you're referring to is from our labour force survey, and our labour force survey is a sample survey. It's a very large one at the national level, but this total sample in Ottawa in the sense that it's a met

Industry committee  The issue would be funding, and every municipality across the country wants that. I mentioned that we've been developing some new techniques that might allow us to estimate more accurately for small areas, using combinations of administrative data and survey data. We also have

Industry committee  If you look at legislation of other countries, you'll see specific provisions that include things, for example, like the method of selection of the chief statistician, that there should be a selection committee, what the criteria for selection are, as opposed to the situation in

Industry committee  Well, I've certainly met with Minister Bains and Minister Duncan as well. I think most of what we've discussed is what's contained in the mandate letters that everyone has seen, in terms of where Statistics Canada is going.

Industry committee  Under Canada's Statistics Act, any information acquired by Statistics Canada under that act is strictly confidential. It cannot be demanded by the courts or the police. Anybody who's going to be in contact with that information has to be sworn under the Statistics Act. They're su