Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. The majority of the information we collect is used for statistical purposes to create economic indicators that ultimately feed into measures of economic output or macroeconomic indicators. I think what you're referring to is a regulatory framework in which you would have financial information that you track entirely through the supply chain in order to be able to have these hand-offs between these different sectors of the economy, which we don't really have right now.

Agriculture committee  No. No food price data has been removed from our website, nor are there any plans to remove any data in the future. The previous average prices table that you're referring to remains online and accessible to users. It still has food prices remaining, and they're available back to 1949.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. Good evening, and thanks for the invitation to appear before this committee this evening. I am Matthew MacDonald, the assistant director responsible for the consumer prices division. I am joined by Chris Li, director of the consumer prices division.