The problem is that we have so many disconnects between all these different studies that it is difficult to bring the information together and get a storyline and come up with effective solutions. When analysts come to these problems, their difficulty will always be data.
Fortunately, in the Canadian federal government, analysts will take pieces of data and use that data to come up with solutions. Over the last 25 years, the government has actually been taking all the data that we have available in Canada and they've put it together into a very comprehensive model. Because of that, for Canadians across Canada, both rural and urban, we're able to get a fuller picture of what their needs are, what their income sources are, their family structures, and all this information.
Each Statistics Canada survey is like a piece of puzzle. When we can use these gold-standard computer models, we can put those pieces of the puzzle together. That will give us the fuller picture that we need to actually see, if we change this piece, how it affects the rest of the picture. If we change the GIS clawback, what's the evidence? What's going to happen? If we change our working income tax benefit, is that going to make CPP enhancements fairer?