It's going to be very difficult. I think it would take a dedicated group to study it, first of all by compiling a list of all the subsidies given to corporations and then by looking at those that succeed and pay off and also those that don't.
When I started looking into this, I phoned up StatsCan and my former colleagues and said, “What is the total number of subsidies?” The people in the national accounts basically gave me an incomprehensible answer, because in their definition, subsidies are only those that fit the national accounts, which is very restrictive and rather strange. It wouldn't be something that would be of interest to this committee. It certainly wouldn't be useful for evaluating the usefulness of these programs.
Therefore, it's going to take a group embedded somewhere else in government or a new group created at StatsCan to look specifically at this issue, but as I mentioned, I think it's something on which we do need more information.