When I talk to my provincial colleagues about the energy information system, we talk about data analysis, modelling capacity, and dissemination. Certainly, the data requires us to regularly evolve what we're collecting. The transition has required us to make sure we're collecting the right information to be able to track this transition. In recent years particularly, we didn't have the information on the clean-tech sector and what was happening there. I'm really pleased that that's a new line of data we are collecting.
On the analysis side, certainly all of the federal departments and the NEB have a strong analytical capacity that we can bring to bear on issues. On modelling, that's an area, certainly from an NRCan perspective, where we're having discussions with the NEB and Environment Canada about how we can bolster it. NRCan doesn't have its own economy-wide modelling capacity to look at policies, so we sometimes find ourselves challenged in wanting to look beyond what the emission reduction impact is of policies and programs to the economic benefits, how it is impacting jobs, and how it is impacting growth. That is something we're having an active discussion about, again, because the transition is so vast that we need to be able to see the full dimension of the energy sector when we're making these policies, not just the emission reduction profile.
Finally, there's the dissemination. You're right; it is difficult for people to find that one place to go for comprehensive, consolidated data to understand how the data aligns, because it's being collected by different parties. That is certainly a gap that I know the provinces and territories and we are talking about and are aware of, and we're working with Statistics Canada and other partners to see how we could improve that for Canadians.