That comes from your pure kindness, Mr. Chair.
Ladies and gentlemen from Statistics Canada, Sylvain Charlebois, a witness nicknamed the “Food Professor,” recently raised a subject here at committee. In various fora, he accuses you of miscalculating the inflation rate, saying you do not take shrinkflation into account. He said he met with you, but you were not convinced.
Basically, he collects his own data. He publicly stated you do not calculate the inflation rate correctly. It surprises me, because you are one of the few federal institutions in which I still trust. I know this witness does not have the relevant education and is certainly not an economist.
Do you calculate the inflation rate correctly? Do you take shrinkflation into account? How is it that some academics can attack you on that point? Do you think you are not communicating well enough about the way you do things?