Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Smith, I want to go back to the calculation of the unemployment rate in first nations communities, because the information you gave me somewhat contradicts other sources of information that come from your services.
I can understand that 400,000 people in Canada may not have a large impact on the national unemployment rate, but this is hugely important for those 400,000 people.
Of the 1,128 census subdivisions on whom data was not published, only 36 were aboriginal communities. Of the data on 608 census subdivisions that included aboriginal communities, only 36 were not viable and were not released.
You tell me that a financial problem is what prevents you from collecting that data, but how is it that all of the other information is good, except the data on the unemployment rates? I would not like us to wind up with a type of segregation through silence. Even if the process goes back to 1944, currently this information is urgently needed to solve social, economic and political problems those communities are experiencing.