It is a very interesting discussion, and thank you all for coming today.
For your information and the record, my colleague Mr. Julian brought up the few days there is left for you to make your submissions. I'm just confirming with the clerk. You have until November 15.
There are a couple of things. First of all, I want to follow up on Mr. Poilievre's comments about poverty, and the goal of moving people out of poverty and into the middle class. As you know, our government's done a number of things, and it flows back to Ms. Hannah's comment about data.
Whether it's the Canada child benefit, the increase to GIS for vulnerable seniors or the Canada workers benefit, as I listen to Mr. Lee and the talk about eliminating the deficits, I wonder where he cut. One of the things that help governments decide where to put those resources is data. It's one of the things we certainly recognized, when we came into government, as something we needed to improve. As you know, the long-form census was cut, and now it's back. That's helpful, but it's going to take time to build that dataset again.
You mentioned some studies and other things, but can you give us some suggestions about what you think is the most useful direction, where that data might best come from and maybe what it should be focused on?