Finance committee  That data is not available in Canada. We would like to very much, but the data is not available in Canada. CFIB data goes back to 2004, Wanted Technologies to 2005, and StatsCan to 2011. That's as far as it goes. There's no information on—

Finance committee  Thank you. Merci.

Finance committee  We used a broader number of data sources when we did the analysis for the labour market assessment 2014 relative to 2012. What we used in 2012 was just StatsCan. Going beyond that, to use CFIB data as well as data from the Conference Board of Canada, based on Wanted Analytics inf

Finance committee  What we looked at was the relative relationship between the job vacancy rate and the unemployment rate currently and prior to the recession and how that evolved. We weren't able to find that it was more acute, per se. But that threshold, there's no—

Finance committee  Oh, I'm sure there were definitely labour shortages in Saskatchewan, no question. In Alberta, I'm sure there were definitely pockets of labour shortages and skill mismatches, as there are across the country. How much larger it is now relative to before, we don't know.

Finance committee  We don't have sufficient data, as they have in the U.S., to actually look at the steady state relationship between those two to determine whether or not we could say there is a threshold for a labour shortage or skills mismatch in those provinces. All we can say is that the vacan

Finance committee  That was the conclusion we reached in the paper.

Finance committee  We can't do a steady state analysis; we just don't have the data.