Mr. Chair, I'm not aware of what decision was taken in 2020. The way the two contracts work together ended up being quite complementary. We had the [Technical difficulty—Editor] from Telus, which we found to be more useful, even then.
In fact, we did not do the actual data collection or the modelling. This was done on our behalf by ISED's communicational research council. They provided us with the reports and with the de-identified, aggregated data. We could then go back and verify or see if we had any questions on the reports.
The dataset from BlueDot is different. It has different levels and different strengths and weaknesses, effectively. By using both of these datasets—which were in place in 2020, long before I joined the agency—the team was better able to understand the actual population-level mobility trends during the pandemic.