Finance committee  —of which homeowners' replacement cost makes up 5.6% of the weight, if you like, of that.

Finance committee  You're seeing home ownership change year over year by 13.5%. The homeowners' replacement cost would be a subcomponent of the housing cost—

Finance committee  Our methodology's been around for a few decades now. We take a set of types of dwellings—single, multi, etc.—in the various geographies in the country, and then we measure that over time. That's how we get at the new house pricing index. Again, as I mentioned, in the CPI, we con

Finance committee  Thank you very much, and it's a pleasure to see you again virtually. First of all, there's no question that, in a number of our indicators, we're seeing the new housing price index showing us almost a 12% year-over-year gain. You're starting to [Technical difficulty—Editor] also

Finance committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the finance committee. I'm pleased to be here with Mr. Peterson and Ms. Ertl today. Canada and the world are continuing to respond to the COVID‑19 pandemic, and the role of Statistics Canada and evidence-based information is more importan

Official Languages committee  As I've explained before, if you put it on the short form, you are subjecting—notwithstanding the point that was made earlier about the reduction of burden—a response from a number of those, obviously, who are pertinent to that.... On the long form, it's the same thing. Now, ther

Official Languages committee  They know exactly what we were testing, the different versions of the questionnaire. They know that we've tested it in different ways—

Official Languages committee  One, that's not their mandate.

Official Languages committee  The answer is no.

Official Languages committee  It's not possible. Through the statistical sampling, the way it works, what we do.... I'll just explain it. We take the list of addresses in a geography, there's a random-number start, and every fourth household after that—

Official Languages committee  In over 50 years of sampling, we have never—

Official Languages committee  I've explained.

Official Languages committee  It is not a category we added, but one of the examples of the response sometimes given. The question simply asks people for their ethnic origin, and some people answered “Canadian”. In addition, we did a study on the whole issue of ethnicity. We will share the report and the re

Official Languages committee  That's not what I said. The results will be made public after the cabinet makes its decision. These issues are addressed in the recommendations.

Official Languages committee  If you go to 3.7 million households in Canada and ask them that question, and you have the statistical rigour and the expertise to be able to weight that up to a population and to benchmark it to the fact that we've asked that question for the last so many censuses, yes, you will