Ms. Henrie‑Cadieux, I can speak to cultural data.
Thanks to the relationship we've developed over the past 25 years with our co-operation agreement partners—Telefilm, the National Film Board, the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Arts Centre and Radio-Canada—we've started working together on data collection. As part of that agreement, we each collect certain types of data. We haven't made enough progress on that yet, but we're working on it together, and that's exactly how we figure out where we are, what's lacking and what steps we can take to address that.
Paradoxically, the hardest part is getting data from official languages support programs. We don't have a clear picture of the share of funding granted to arts and culture.
So, yes, data is essential and, speaking specifically to the topic of this meeting, I think the draft regulations must specify that developing positive measures starts with collecting data to identify the problem and then figuring out how to correct it.
