That's an interesting question. I'll be very straightforward. I pride myself in not manipulating. Some professors modify, massage the data. My little bit flippant phrase is, I photocopy the StatsCan data. It's a bit flippant, but I mean by that I don't massage it, I don't transform it, I don't manipulate it. The value added on my research is finding the data because drilling down into OECD and IMF, you could spend all day long for the rest of your life, and 10 lifetimes, doing it, I assure you, having done that.
If you're asking me, is the data absolutely sourced reliably from StatsCan or OECD, yes. Is the data reliable? Is StatsCan reliable, and OECD reliable? I believe they're the gold standard, as well as these other international bodies like the IEA or the WTO. My value added is in finding the data. There's a goldmine of data in these, and that's why I provide the full URL for every data source I find, so if anybody wants to challenge it they can go then and argue with OECD or IMF or StatsCan, and so forth.