Thank you very much, Irek, for your kind remarks on my unfortunate inability a couple of times in the last few months to be fully in touch with you and to be fully supportive of your important work.
Thank you also for your very relevant question on diversity and inclusion. In Canada we're very proud of diversity in many different dimensions, but for that diversity to be meaningful, it has to come with inclusion. The Treasury Board Secretariat has a key role to play when it comes to making our public service fully inclusive. That comes, as you said, with the ability to generate and share disaggregated data.
To date, there have been seven sets of disaggregated data released to the public and to the public service, which in fact provide the first-ever view into the composition of 21 different employment equity subgroups. I repeat, it's the first-ever view on the disaggregated picture of our public service.
These numbers are based on those who have chosen to self-identify. We have a lot more work to do, because self-identification is sometimes an issue when it comes to sharing one's diversity and one's personality, one's person and one's identity. We have work to do.
Tolga might want to briefly add something on that. He's working very well with negotiating agents and various representatives and leaders of our diversity in the public service. We are looking forward to more work and to having more outcomes produced.
Tolga, you might want to briefly share further news on that.