Given that our major role is to identify in a better way the clients we serve, we need that profile data, that socio-economic data.
If you're asking about what data we need from the federal departments, I could give you a list right now, as follows. We are in very short supply of health data. The federal government is sitting on a gold mine of health data through CIHI, the Canadian Institute for Health Information. That would be a great start. We get very little data from them.
There's also the CMHC housing data. That one is a little different. We would like to get that data at a specific level of geography. There are little nuances to the data.
The big one, of course, is the national census. I realize this is a political hot potato, but I'll say what's on my mind: bring back the long form. We've heard it loud and clear in our community. That is the only substantive source of socio-economic data that's reliable.
Finally, sometimes it's not just about the type of data, it's about the way the data is provided. To give you an example, employment is huge in Toronto. Job creation is huge in Toronto. The labour force survey and all of that data that comes from the feds is only done every five years. We do not get that level of granularity in neighbourhoods, so you need to begin thinking about expanding your delivery and dissemination of data on a more timely basis rather than every five or seven...or 10 years on religion data.