What we found, and as we've been hearing throughout testimony today, is that there's a lot of data available at Correctional Service Canada. A lot of the data gathered on visible minorities didn't follow the same 11 buckets that Statistics Canada uses, such that then you would have a lot more data available through Statistics Canada.
Correctional Service uses a rating scale of 30. Where an offender needs to self-identify and select what visible minority bucket they may fall into, we heard there was confusion and uncertainty as to what they should be ticking off. Then when we looked into the systems, we saw increasing gaps in that data actually being entered into the system. We felt that it was important to have that disaggregated data but in a way that was meaningful and useful.
We wanted to make that recommendation to Correctional Service to align with Statistics Canada but also to be more diligent in ensuring that it was entered into the system and that the information was complete so that they could make well-informed decisions going forward.