Maybe I'll take a step back and explain the data that Madame Bégin just referred to as new data that we've developed in the past several months using the labour force survey, but also additional information we had collected that allowed us to identify people with disabilities.
Traditionally in Canada we've relied on the census of population and the Canadian disability survey to measure labour market conditions for people with disabilities. We have enhanced the labour force survey to start to include statistics on people with disabilities. Unfortunately, that data is very fresh, it's very new, and we don't yet have a trend to be able to speak to exactly the medium-term or even the longer-term dynamics.
One thing maybe I'll mention is that the short analysis we did publish recently pointed to the very dynamic nature of disability itself. We saw, for example, an increase in the number of people reporting disabilities in the labour force over the pandemic period, especially people with mental health disabilities.
One of the challenges in responding to your question is that the group of people with disabilities is not a stable group. It in fact changes, so I would invite you to think of a dynamic situation where disabled people are becoming employed or unemployed. However, employed people are also becoming disabled or not disabled. It's quite challenging to separate those factors, especially for very specific periods of time or very specific geographies.
Now, having said all that, we will pull together some analysis for you and do the very best we can to respond to your specific question.