Mr. Chair, I would like to thank the member for the question.
Statistics Canada does publish data on aboriginal peoples and on seniors, as well. These data are made available, made discoverable, through the open data portal.
I can't, from my perspective, address the wider question of data availability in that larger sense. My role within the agency is to think about the standard aggregate data that we have to publish for the broader community, and to make sure that those data are available in machine-readable formats.
One thing we will be doing in the future has to do with how, in some cases, data is wrapped up in publication format. It might be a PDF. It might be an HTML version of web language on the Statistics Canada website. Those data sources may not be downloadable. So there may be some cases where data is contained in publication format, which is not really a technically open format.
One of our next steps as an agency is to review those publications and make sure those data sources become open, machine readable, and downloadable.