Thank you for that question and for that reference.
I'm particularly interested in what was launched just last year in trying to think through what it would mean to modernize the university and the college academic staff survey, particularly thinking about EDI and the inclusion of part-time faculty, part-time instructors. I think Dr. Prentice already spoke to how that's a big part of the pay equity considerations at the moment.
In order to lead this, we really need nationally, with the pilot that was launched, to try to include this and think about what that would mean. I think it will yield for us a number of considerations as we look across the nation. We know that in the hiring process, our salaries are driven not only by what's happening within our institutions but obviously also by their relation to each other, and this study continues to need to be funded.
I think we also know that the Dimensions initiative and certainly the StatsCan work that we all rely upon are also dependent on the long-form census, asking extensive questions and funding the labour surveys and doing all of that work. I think with the funding particularly over the last two decades, sometimes programs have been pulled back, and then they are reintroduced. This really creates barriers to that kind of robust data that's necessary for us to locate the specific institutional responses.
I will stop there. I think the others probably think quite a bit about Dimensions as well, so they may also have input.