Okay. I also want to put in a good word for the researchers at Statistics Canada and at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. I have been working with them as an external consultant for about 15 years.
This might be a slight exaggeration, but almost world-class research is going on right here in Ottawa regarding program evaluation on how effective or ineffective certain interventions are. In addition to evaluating government programs, not just job retraining programs and targeted wage subsidies, but a whole slew of social insurance programs, regulations, and interventions.... Not only is very good research being done on the efficacy of public policy, but there is research that has been done—Ross and I have contributed to it in the past—on the itineraries of displaced workers, what happens to people who are displaced or who are at the periphery of the job market.
It's really critical to be able to follow these individuals over time. I confess to having a vested interest here, but I'd like to make a plug for the development and maintenance of a number of data sets that are instrumental in researching how the labour market is operating, who is gaining, who is losing, etc.