Human Resources committee  I'm not sure but real-time data is obviously very difficult to get because real-time data, in my mind, means that you have the data for this month. Surveys normally take time to conduct and then it takes time to make them ready. So for example, if you survey on a continuous basis

Human Resources committee  No. I don't really know how much of that has been implemented, but my sense is that it wasn't really.... It sort of stopped after it was released.

Human Resources committee  I'm sure it is possible to look at that question as to why the number of people with minimum wage has increased. Typically, when we go through a severe recession and a rise in the unemployment rate, obviously people who are unemployed look for anything they can find. There's a po

Human Resources committee  We are probably a bit biased because our business relies on information and data. Obviously, the more that is available, the better it is for us to do our job, and therefore, for parliamentarians. Certainly, Statistics Canada has gone through budget cuts as have many other depar

Human Resources committee  Absolutely.

Human Resources committee  The data we normally use has to be official data because we have to make sure we are using reliable data that has the necessary characteristics. If that kind of information from different industry groups and employers' associations is not official data then we don't normally use

Finance committee  What we are forecasting for the economy is that, over the last three or four years of the projection period, the economy will be operating above its potential level. We close the outward gap in 2015 and then for the rest of the projection period the economy will be operating abov

Finance committee  Sure. There are two or three factors here. One is what we call the cyclical factor, which is that once you're above potential, you get some extra revenues because the economy is operating above its normal trend. That part we call cyclical revenues. Those are not permanent; they'r

Finance committee  Exactly. That's why we have calculated this in table 3 that we provided today. At the bottom of table 3 is what we call permanent fiscal policy room.

Finance committee  It is negative now. After last week's measures that were introduced, based on our calculations, that room is negative over the medium term.

Finance committee  No. We've not seen any analysis from the government on the job impact of this.

Finance committee  Well, I understand that is coming from CFIB, and—

Finance committee  We have seen some analysis from CFIB. The way it has calculated those job numbers is not the way that the job impact of a policy measure is normally calculated. It is talking about a job-year or person-year impact over a long period of time, which I believe is a 10-year period.

Finance committee  Well, yes, in fact. The way that the credit was done, it was only over a two-year period, so whatever the number of jobs we estimated, obviously the cost divided by that will be the cost per....

Finance committee  We have not seen any official comment.