I would agree that Stats Canada is one of the bigger red tape burdens that small businesses have to face given that they have a requirement to fill out often a 20 to 30 page survey. I think there are a lot of other ways that data can be collected. It can be shared more often between government departments, because sometimes they're being asked the same questions multiple times. I think there can be a better job done at understanding of what's maybe being collected through provinces, through associations, through other means. We as an organization have a huge amount of data that we are also happy to share. So I think there are other ways of getting at some of this information, but I do believe that we need to look a little bit more at what kind of labour information is missing and make some efforts to put that in place.
On October 28th, 2014. See this statement in context.