That is a very difficult question for me to answer, because there is the law on transparency around the data. I would say the lack of transparency has been a major obstacle to research developing more richly in this field of military women and women veterans. These are departments, especially the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence, that are not very open and transparent externally. Veterans Affairs Canada publishes some things. We know what they're working on, and they have certainly improved over the last couple of years in terms of posting some of their reports online and sharing some of the research they do, but I think a lot more could be done to really be transparent about the research that's happening, the data that is being collected. A lot more could be done in terms of really breaking down the data by sex, gender and other intersectional factors.
The mandate is there to do the sex- and gender-based analysis plus and to have more open government. However, I don't think we're there yet. I think if you could stress the need for that, that would be really crucial to further the research.