{"id":77363,"date":"2017-04-30T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/true-test-of-trudeaus-expensive-data-devotion-will-be-whether-he-follows-the-numbers.html"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:05:08","slug":"true-test-of-trudeaus-expensive-data-devotion-will-be-whether-he-follows-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/true-test-of-trudeaus-expensive-data-devotion-will-be-whether-he-follows-the-numbers.html","title":{"rendered":"True test of Trudeau’s expensive data devotion will be whether he follows the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin\u00a0Trudeau’s\u00a0Liberals are\u00a0a group that enthuses\u00a0about “evidence-based policy” and “smarter decisions” and has concerned itself with “deliverology<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

And they are apparently hungry for more data.<\/p>\n

“The challenge that we’re facing is one of \u2014 and we saw this more acutely a year ago in Vancouver \u2014\u00a0a dearth of data,” the prime minister\u00a0said recently when asked about what his government might do about Toronto’s heated real estate market.<\/p>\n

Adam Vaughan, a parliamentary secretary and\u00a0Liberal MP in downtown Toronto, says there are theories about what’s happening within the city’s real estate market, but not enough is known about what’s actually going on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to … get the data,” he\u00a0told\u00a0CBC’s\u00a0Power Politics<\/em>. “We have to manage the data so that we can understand where the problems are emerging and deal with them quickly.”<\/p>\n

Such concerns follow\u00a0a spring budget that, between the promises of jobs and roads and social assistance, included new commitments to data: tens of millions of dollars to be spent collecting new numbers on health care, housing, transportation and other concerns.<\/p>\n

More money for more data<\/h2>\n

The Liberals have promised\u00a0$39.9 million for\u00a0the creation of a new “Housing Statistics Framework,” while another $241 million will go to the\u00a0Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to, in part, “improve data collection and analytics.”<\/p>\n

The Canadian\u00a0Institute for Health Information will receive $53 million\u00a0to\u00a0address “health data gaps” and strengthen “reporting on health system performance,” while $13.6 million will go to Statistics Canada to “broaden tourism data collection.”<\/p>\n