First of all, as publicly funded institutions, whether universities, community colleges, or polytechnics, everybody has their reporting tracking. They have to in order to get their operating grant from the province and the provincial capital funding for “bum in seat”. So the issue is, who's not making it public and who's distorting the data? That's the challenge right now.
The other issue is that all of these institutions are providing it to the provincial capital but not the federal government. I do believe we gave away the levers at the federal level when we didn't seek accountability. The Canada social transfer and the post-secondary education escalator set aside within it—we don't know what we're getting for it. Now it's coming home to roost, and we're asking.
That's fine; things change a decade later, so let's actually look at this again. But it would be no burden to ask us to give you the data. What's shocking to me is when I go to ESDC and they're asking me for the data because they can't get it from the provinces. Some sort of incentive has to be created to allow the existing data to be put into the hands of the people who need it.