They collect the data.
Certainly, the electronic data exist, but here's the question:
What are you comparing it to? The data is different, depending on what factors are involved. What Colonel Jardine was talking about in terms of not collecting data is if they collect data for men, women, francophones and anglophones, where there's a gap would be for data on indigenous veterans. Do indigenous veterans wait longer than others or not? Does it matter where you live, if you're in a more remote location versus an urban centre? It's those kinds of additional factors. Does it matter if you're LGBTQ? Do you wait longer than someone who isn't? That data isn't collected, so you can't compare it. That's the data that's missing, but the basic data on language and gender is collected and we do have that.
The big issue is whether we are comparing things in the same way. If you add in all applications versus only first applications, you're going to have some different answers as to the progress that's being made.