Status of Women committee  I've been told not to talk about ideology. And I don't see this as a right or left split. The Canadian Women's Foundation is joined by business groups such as the Toronto Board of Trade, the CD Howe Institute, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Conference Board of Canada, and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney.

Status of Women committee  It'll be like a dotted trend line for 2011.

Status of Women committee  Yes, despite the inaccuracies we'll have to take out for your unpaid work while you're reading.

Status of Women committee  At the same time, we're not saying that it's perfect. I mean, we work in an imperfect world. We collect data. We have research reports written. We analyze our own results over time. Every time we do a granting round...we grant millions of dollars every year. We go back and assess how we granted it.

Status of Women committee  The problem is that the data shows it doesn't work. The data shows that in making it voluntary, you can knock at the door, you can be really nice, but the vulnerable people will not respond for lots of different reasons, which probably are not understood yet. Whether they're trying to put their child to bed, working two jobs, feeling socially isolated, or whether they don't like the government, the data shows, and other voluntary surveys indicate, that it doesn't work.

Status of Women committee  It's used internationally right now, but they won't accept it if it's a voluntary survey. There are all kinds of implications. You can't go back and make that up afterwards. We'll lose a five-year snapshot of Canada, of Canadians. That is what we'll lose.

Status of Women committee  I just wanted to clarify one point, because I think I had my numbers mixed up, and I know it's going on record. It was the U.S. in 2002. They did a test to see what would happen if they went to a voluntary American community survey, and they found that 43% of white households responded, as did 20% of Hispanic households and 22% of black households.

Status of Women committee  With my work through the Canadian Women's Foundation.

Status of Women committee  Sorry, my French is not....

Status of Women committee  Sorry, and full-time to part-time.... Seventy percent of Canada's part-time workforce is female. They make choices that they don't take full-time jobs because of core housework related to food and shelter. So this is meal preparation, cleanup, indoor cleaning, and laundry--not lawn cutting and not reading to my daughter at night.

Status of Women committee  The information we get with question 33 helps us to explain why women are at an economic disadvantage. They make choices, and whether you want to call it unpaid work or selfless work, or whatever it is, if I wasn't buying groceries for my child, somebody would have to buy the groceries.

Status of Women committee  I don't know the answer to that question right now. I think that sort of relates to whether it is our data collection and why the government should pay for our data collection. My response to that is that it's not our data collection in terms of the Canadian Women's Foundation; it's our data collection in terms of the country of Canada, and the government represents the people.

Status of Women committee  Not that I'm aware of.

Status of Women committee  To scrap the long-form census?

Status of Women committee  Was your question that Stats Can is saying there's no research being done using this data?