The difficulty is that the information collected is not necessarily reliable to be able to be aggregated to know the numbers of jobs that were created or maintained, and that's why government has had to go to these macroeconomic analyses. I think in their performance report, if they want to present cases of various projects and the number of jobs, it perhaps illustrates for Canadians what was done. But to get the overall assessment of the program, they cannot use that information. It is not sufficiently robust.
On October 28th, 2010. See this statement in context.