Let me be clear. The cost recovery I was talking about is a thing of the past. The pricing of our products and services, the restrictions on re-dissemination, that's all gone. Our standard product is free. Our data's free on the Internet. Anybody can take it. Anybody can re-disseminate it.
Every year we generate about $100 million in revenue through providing statistical services to other organizations, primarily federal government departments. Employment and Social Development Canada and Health Canada are examples of major clients of ours that ask us to carry out large surveys on their behalf.
In that domain, it's mainly a client-driven business. It's one of the issues that arise when people are concerned about surveys that have disappeared. In some cases a department has come to us and said they want to pay for a survey. We do the survey. Then they decide they don't really need it anymore, and the survey stops.That's one of the reasons that happens.
About one-fifth of our total production today, every year, is funded by other departments, primarily federal government departments, sometimes the provinces, sometimes the private sector, but very little. The buyer calls the tune, not in setting the standards, our professional standards, but in choosing what data's going to be collected.