My sense is that if you folks could find a way to mandate data standardization.... StatsCan has repositories of great, and some not so great, questions that we have had conversations about. If everybody could ask questions the same way.... In my research, I've switched to asking demographic questions the way StatsCan asks demographic questions, because I need to be able to compare my data with StatsCan's data.
If you have an engine to collect data and the tri-council is hewing to that engine, by and large, then if there was a way to enforce that level of data standardization across provinces and through the provinces down into the post-secondary system, that would be a really good thing. If you could identify a mechanism by which that was possible, and if StatsCan could identify a mechanism by which that was possible, I would be very friendly to that.