Thank you very much, Ms. Bender.
Before we move on and before I thank the witnesses, I have a question I would like to ask as chair.
You say that you believe, and that you've heard from people, that doing the general social survey will give you the kinds of data you require, and Status of Women Canada has suggested that they will be depending on Statistics Canada for good information on unpaid work. Given that your general social survey looks at metropolitan areas, how are you going to understand the difference between rural and urban, given that your sample size is 25,000 and that it's a telephone survey? There are many people now who do not utilize telephones in the same way. How are you going to be able to get that information? That's my first question.
Second, we know that the issue of unpaid work came about when Canada brought it forward in 1995 at the Beijing conference. Canada has been pushing very hard for unpaid work questions to be put into general statistics in many countries of the world; therefore, how are we meeting our United Nations and CIDA obligations when we do not ask questions on unpaid work in our Statistics Canada survey?