Thank you, Madam Chair.
And thank you, of course, to our witnesses for appearing.
The central issue at stake here, of course, is Statistics Canada's collecting of information through mandatory or voluntary questions. I shouldn't say mandatory or voluntary; they do both, right? So the question here is essentially which questions should be mandatory and which should be voluntary. I see some heads nodding “yes”.
Witnesses, you all understand that essentially the only change the government has made is to move some questions from being mandatory to being voluntary. Is that correct? We understand that's the change this government has made here?
Mr. Rainer, do you want to comment?