I'm going to interrupt there, simply because I know my time is limited. I want to put something in here.
When I was doing my own research, simply looking at reliability of statistics, I came across a quote from Britain. I'm not saying this has anything to do with Canada, but I am saying that in 2001, the ONS has admitted that it had to impute information for 6.1% of households who failed to fill in the forms--more than 1.5 million families. One in three forms was not filled in completely, leaving large blanks that are filled in by ONS staff who use average answers, using responses from neighbours.
As much as we want to say that we all have reliable data, other jurisdictions are saying that there are still problems. My point is that we're moving to a voluntary form. I'm not sure that the data we're going to get will be any less reliable since it has been voluntary. No one has been prosecuted. No one has gone to jail in the 40 years that we've been using this data. Effectively, the corollary is that it has already always been a voluntary form.
If that is reliable data—