Industry committee  Perhaps I could turn to.... It's not the National Statistics Council per se, but we actually have an advisory committee on labour markets and how that whole situation is continuing to evolve. That also builds on a number of previous studies. I think Don Drummond did a study earl

Industry committee  That specific council is really looking at how we go about best filling that gap. There are numerous ways that one could go about that. One could do searches on various job sites to see the number of jobs that are available. One could go out and do a survey to find out where....

Industry committee  It's an advisory committee, so they give advice to me as the chief statistician and, of course, to the department, in terms of statistical methodologies, how they align with international trends and standards, and how we can collect that information so that it can better link wit

Industry committee  That is correct.

Industry committee  Let me parse that out. First of all, the robust set of advisory committees we have currently provides technical advice on how best to go about measuring a phenomena, how things are evolving in the landscape of that particular aspect, and how we should go about responding to it.

Industry committee  The current National Statistics Council has had an interesting evolution in terms of how members were selected and made it onto the committee. There was a period of time when it was the minister, then it was the chief statistician making recommendations to the minister, and then

Industry committee  Right. That's what the legislation proposes, that it would be through the Governor in Council process, that they would go through the process as described in terms of the selection, the remuneration, and the representation they now would have to have, as with any other individua

Industry committee  Again, it is a GIC process. I'm not the expert on that particular process, but there is an established process and we follow that.

Industry committee  My understanding is that recommendations for people to serve in those capacities can come from various means.

Industry committee  As I said, in that evolution since 1985—

Industry committee  There was a period when they were appointed by the minister, there were also periods when the chief statistician recommended people, and there were points when the chief statistician actually nominated people.

Industry committee  My understanding is consistent with that.

Industry committee  That is correct. There will be a formal, transparent process.

Industry committee  That's an excellent question. It depends on the vehicle and the mechanism. If it's above a certain dollar value and a threshold, as you know—

Industry committee  Yes, we can certainly point out what you have to go to procurement services Canada for, what would be available from Statistics Canada.