There are lots of questions like that in, for example, the agricultural survey, which is still, incidentally, mandatory, and has about 200 questions in it.
I would like to go to the question of forthrightness. I would like to ask you why it is--because this is something that many people have brought up--you have created the impression that StatsCan came forward with what you've described as a perfectly workable proposal that would compensate for the fact that the long-form census was no longer mandatory, and that by making it voluntary and educating Canadians we would have the same quality of data.
We know that this is not true. I know that it is not true. We know that the chief statistician resigned as a result of it.
Why is it that you indulged in this misinformation in front of Canadians as opposed to being forthright and open and honest about how StatsCan actually felt about it--namely, that a voluntary approach was not going to yield the same quality of data?