Thank you very much. My questions will be directed to CIHI and StatsCan. As a number of my colleagues on this committee have said, the testimony from witnesses overall has been extremely critical of our existing datasets, the timeliness and so on. I am sure you are very aware of that.
Ms. Morris, you have obviously told us that the Public Health Agency of Canada, StatsCan and CIHI have very clearly articulated areas of responsibility for which they collect data. Mr. Latimer has made the comment that in fact there is really no identifier that links across these organizations so that a researcher can follow the data on a particular individual, although obviously with non-nominal data. They cannot link across easily. You have made a reference to data-sharing agreements.
Can you explain how a researcher might use those data-sharing agreements to facilitate an inquiry? Our witnesses earlier today made it very clear that in the United States there was a very easy way of following datasets and linking them. What do you see going forward? What exists now, and how could we improve?