Thank you, Madam Chair.
I will start my intervention the same way I did at the last meeting. In the House of Commons, we passed a motion which reads:
That this House highlights the importance of the so-called "invisible" unpaid work done by parents and caregivers on behalf of their children and aging family members by creating the "Invisible Work Day"...
Mr. Fellegi, who was previously the chief statistician of Statistics Canada, told us yesterday about the importance of the long form census, as compared with the survey that the government in power would implement. He mentioned that in fact, the debate would not deal with statistics any longer, but rather with the reliability of data.
How will we be able to analyze data obtained from a questionnaire that some 20,000 or 25,000 persons will have filled, given the fact that at the last census, the data were obtained through a long form questionnaire that was filled by more than 2.9 million people?
I would like to know what is your opinion, as researchers, on the reliability of the future data concerning the so-called invisible unpaid work. And you are right when you say that through the data that we used to have, we could make this work visible.