As a national non-profit, are we able to continue to do work by using these data to tell the story? I think there's a tremendous stress, certainly at the national level. There are fewer national non-profits. There are fewer social community-based research organizations that are doing research of this type.
I can't speak directly to the status at the provincial and municipal levels, but certainly there is a prevalent concern about the capacity of the community to continue to monitor and assess social and economic trends and to engage actively in policy and program debate.
The issue of information is a common concern across all sectors, and we hear this from colleagues across the country. We hear it from communities across the country, that we are losing our ability to tell the story of Canada in all of its complexity and diversity, and we remain committed to....
Yes, it's a huge problem, absolutely.