With the whole thing around the COVID, I've never heard so much about data collection since we've been dealing with this pandemic. It's so real, and the effect on.... I'm, of course, most familiar with the African-Canadian community. In my community too, we were black and indigenous who lived in my community. On the need for desegrated data, we're hearing also about health data, and you can't talk about the environment unless you talk about health.
In this bill, we will have an opportunity...as other areas, for example, in the health field, in the policing system, all now recognize that the pandemic has had a terrible effect on our communities, and we don't have the data to go along with it.
This bill will allow us also to collect this kind of desegrated data to help us do better. It's not just for the sake of doing it, but because we want a better environment and better health in these communities. We want to address these issues.
I'm no expert in a mathematical or engineering field, but I certainly can speak to community and community needs.
Thank you.