Human Resources committee  The idea there was to put the emphasis on comparing trends. When you compare the trends, it's pretty robust.

Human Resources committee  It's a big question. I think we've pointed to the whole issue of the decline of the working-age population as being critical. Literacy, which is something we may be able to do something about, particularly literacy with respect to the new immigrant population whose mother tongue

Human Resources committee  We're very happy to be here. Thank you.

Human Resources committee  It's more difficult to get on-reserve information. We have tried to do so through census figures and through certain post-census studies, but we need the agreement of the aboriginal people themselves in order to enter a reserve. Sometimes we can and sometimes we can't.

Human Resources committee  We have been doing so since the 2001 census.

Human Resources committee  That's fine. Furthermore, the results of the 2006 census will soon be available.

Human Resources committee  It's possible that we could get some information from one survey that I'm thinking of, which is the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada. They may have some questions on that. I don't have the information here, but we can follow up and find out. That's a survey that's loo

Human Resources committee  I think we had a chart on that, didn't we?

Human Resources committee  We do not have it here, but that information exists. We can send it to you.

Human Resources committee  It depends. I don't even know if we have reliable data for the administrative regions.

Human Resources committee  The information we have only covers the off-reserve population. I don't know if we have with us the numbers for the unemployment rate. No, I'm sorry. We don't have that information here, but once again, we can get that to you. For now, the information we can send you is based o

Human Resources committee  I don't know of any survey at the moment that we do that would provide information on retirements that are specifically due to mandatory retirements and on how these have changed.

Human Resources committee  We don't have a definition of poverty. We produce measures of low income, and there are a couple of different measures that are published. The one that's best known is based on what the average family spends on food, shelter, and clothing, plus 20%, and then we create a series of

Human Resources committee  I don't know if we can answer that question, but what we certainly could do is provide you with information on where the growth has been greatest in temporary jobs in terms of province, industry, occupation. We can provide you with information on rates of pay of those jobs relati

Human Resources committee  That is correct. As Philip just mentioned and as I pointed out, it is important to include several measures of activity within the job market, in other words, not to focus only on the unemployment rate. Other measures have to be considered. The phenomenon you are raising can be t