Thanks.
I'm new to the committee. As I was going through the material in preparation for today, a couple of things jumped out at me. All of the witnesses we heard from today mentioned the importance of data, having good knowledge and data to draw from.
Given that we had the cancellation of the long-form census under the previous government, and then with DRAP 2012 as well—I can speak to that as somebody who worked in the federal public service—do your departments actually have access to the kind of data you need? Do you have any in-house capability for generating your own data that you can't get through StatsCan? Do you have the capacity within your departments to do this kind of analysis?
Just some thoughts on that would be useful.