Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you again, Mr. Ferguson and your team, for being here this morning to bring us your findings. They are very interesting to us, since we are still new to government. It really lets us know what our job is ahead of us.
I'm going to leave it to my colleagues on the committee to tackle each of the individual reports, because there is considerable substantive detail that we want to get into on each of these, and, frankly, some low-hanging fruit that we need to address, but your overriding concern is the state of data collection and usage across all government departments, and I'd like to understand better from you how we could address that problem.
The way I'm seeing it—and again, I'm new at this—is that when we're collecting data, Mr. Chair, we're first concerned with the collection of it. We know that we're dealing with legacy systems. We know we are dealing with different methods across departments. We know there is a concern about quality and accuracy of the data and we're also concerned about how that data is used and, even when we have it, we are concerned that employees are either not able to use it or are not properly trained on how to use it.
I would like to hear more from you, Mr. Ferguson, or any one of your team, on how we can get to the root causes of this problem and maybe on how we can address it.