Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Wernick, I'd like to ask you about the census data the government is using for this.
The Auditor General's report noted that the data being used is from the census of 2001. It certainly doesn't make a lot of sense to most parliamentarians and Canadians across the country to use such outdated data for making decisions like this.
Can you explain why that could be the case? Is there any reasonable explanation as to why they could not use more recent data?