On your first question, about the impact of removing the long form, I think it will certainly have an impact on our work, particularly when we look at groups that are highly vulnerable.
I have the chart I referred to in French as well as English, so I will send it to the clerk.
Those groups include recent immigrants who have come to Canada in the last five years, all immigrants, children of aboriginal identity, and children in ethno-racial groups. It used to include children with disabilities. That came from a companion survey, so I won't even talk about that one; it's a separate issue.
If we don't have the solid data from the long-form census we will not be able to track the changes, which we hope are improvements in those groups that are more at risk. What does that mean? It might have an impact on services that are or are not available for recent immigrants, whether it's English as a second language or settlement services that perhaps Mr. Wong can speak to more fully than I.
On aboriginal identity, we know that the question of determining our aboriginal population is important. I know that Statistics Canada is working with the aboriginal communities on that. But what we have now that's the most robust or full is the long-form census. If we lose that we will lose the ability to track what's happening and plan services for that.
The loss of the long-form census will hide the economic reality to some degree. To be fair, income tax data will give us numbers, although we've never been able to get income tax data for the whole country, so that's pretty impossible. It will certainly make it much harder to chart the economic reality for children in low-income and modest-income families.