Yes. I appreciate the question. Being an economist and having spent most of my career at the Department of Finance, there's nobody who loves data more than I do, so thank you for raising that.
Indeed, it was a major criticism in the Auditor General's report. It's something that we have a fairly aggressive action plan on to try to turn it around and to try to correct some of the more obvious things that you have raised.
I would describe the agency as having a wealth of data at its disposal. Sometimes we aren't able to share that data because it's taxpayers' confidential data, but in many ways we do a lot of great work with data.
This is a place where we need to improve our data. I can say that we have made some very significant improvements in a short time, with what I would consider to be relatively straightforward steps. You identified some of the problems.
On the one hand I'm encouraged by that, by that 41% increase in the data quality. On the other hand, I'm distressed by it, because it shows how far we had to come and, as you know, we still have more to go.
I think you can rest assured that with us—also, Mireille is doing a lot of work with her colleagues across the agency, because this is another part where we have to get everybody in the agency contributing to the data set effectively and efficiently—we will have better data, and we will better communicate that data, where we can, with Canadians. I think your point is valid, and it's something that we take great interest in.