Thank you very much.
I welcome your testimony. It's always helpful to us when we have difficult tasks before us.
I tend to agree that the lateness of the reports is a concern, and I think we should note that in our report. I also think, when you go across the land and pick up the reports, you do it individually by jurisdiction. Another witness came before us and suggested there should be one complete report for Canada on an annual basis. First, I want to know whether you think that's worthwhile. One of the things that happens when you collect data on an annual basis is you give everybody a deadline, so hopefully it would be helpful. We could get a real assessment across the country at a glance, basically.
When you answer that question, I do have some concerns about the safety after the fact from operations that have occurred. While I agree that the information tells us virtually nothing that you could get a logical conclusion from at this point, I would like to strike a balance between getting more information, to see the efficacy of the legislation, but not put anybody's personal safety.... If you go down to the point and to the extreme example, Ms. Wood, and you say this came from this geographical data and this thing, somebody's going to know what happened. I think that's very counter-productive to what we're trying to accomplish here.
What parameters when you say...? It has been suggested charges. Have charges been laid or are charges pending--those types of things. That's the type of information.... What other types of information? When we say let's get a better report, what do we really want that's not going to do harm as well as give information? It's that line that we're trying to find here, because I think we can all agree around this table, hopefully, that the reports right now don't give sufficient information.