That's a great question and certainly something that, as a researcher, I have been looking at quite closely.
The fact of the matter is that we have extraordinarily great resources and information in Canada, but too often they are actually provided at the national level and they don't provide the depth and granularity needed to really paint a nuanced picture of groups such as racialized women, newcomers to Canada or indigenous women. That's certainly something that StatsCan has on its radar.
There is lots more to do and more investment needed to enhance the information that we have, certainly to provide not only at the national policy level, but actually to support community decision-makers as well. It's vital to think about the information and the sources that we need in order to support informed public policy.
I was able to generate some information from the census. As you know, the census is done once every five years. That really is probably not enough. There is a lot of great administrative data often that provides some information, but it's not publicly available. We really have a challenge in front of us to think through what's needed to support informed policy and reform in this matter.