Thank you very much, Chair.
To Selma, if I may, congratulations on your great work. I went through the report. It's quite fascinating. I agree with my colleague MP Long and other colleagues that we should do more to promote your work and make it known to more people so that we get more support on battling a lot of the issues raised by your report.
I heard you talking about stats, and today is the deadline to return census forms. I see in your report that Ms. Barile spoke about the long-form census and how important it is to obtain “a realistic profile of a part of the population that is often invisible.” Speaking as a former census commissioner, I can tell you how much I appreciate the amount of work StatsCan staff and census staff put in to ensure the integrity of these data and how important these data are to help us shape policy going forward.
Can you talk a little bit about what she meant by that and expand on the importance of the census?