We have in place a broad infrastructure that allows measurement of growth down to individual industries and to reconstitute....
To use clean tech as an example of what we're able to do, part of the proposal around clean tech is.... This is not a standard industry that is defined by Statistics Canada, so our first problem is that we have to define it. We're currently working with Natural Resources Canada and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to define that industry, to define what types of businesses belong in that industry.
Once we've done that, we have a wide range of information from surveys and tax data that allows us to calculate estimates of the output of that industry, for example, and to track that output through time. We can then create in principle a baseline of what the situation was before a government policy and can track the development of that industry over time.
For businesses that have benefited, for example, from development loans from the federal government, we also have the ability to look at them individually to see how their business has developed over time and compare them with a control group.
The capacity is thus there, but generally speaking much of the actual work of exploiting the data is done in the departments and granting councils and agencies rather than by Statistics Canada.
My view would be that, depending on the granularity of what people are looking at, we have an infrastructure in place that would allow us to address those kinds of needs.