First of all, there are many programs where there's a need for very high-quality data. The unemployment program is one example I've given that we benchmarked from the census to our ongoing surveys. There are a lot of programs, such as employment equity. There are many legal requirements that are based on the long form.
I'm trying to tell you that we do not want to inadvertently leave Canadians with the impression that the information that comes from the long form is untrustworthy, is not of high quality or is not something you can trust at low levels of geography. I'm trying to explain that this is something we have done for 50 years in Canada on a whole host of areas. That information is not theoretical. It's something that we provided to you as legislators and as decision-makers. You make important decisions already on a whole host of laws based on that quality of information.
I'll leave you with this last point. If, in fact, that information was not reliable, we would see huge variances in the results from one census to the other for those local levels, but we don't. We're not the only country that uses a sample to do the census and to provide high-quality data at low levels. It is something that the world over.... It's a sampling technique that provides very high quality information. There are 3.7 million Canadians who fill out the long form and the quality of the information is very high.
That's all I'm trying to say.