No. I don't think that's a strong explanation, because within the federal government energy data is scattered across Statistics Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and the NEB. They have a hard time coordinating themselves and collaborating to share data.
I'm not saying that they don't share, but they don't send you easily from one place to the other. It seems that their efforts are really separated, and that has nothing to do with the fact that we are a federation. These are three institutions that decentralize amongst themselves. One of the examples—