Long form census core document for Canada

Letters to the editor have been arriving for weeks over Tony Clement’s decision to make the filing of the long form census a matter of choice rather than a matter of must.

In the past those of us who received the long form census were legally bound to fill it out and send it off to the government.

The information gathered is crunched by Stats Can. All identities are left out of the information made available to the Canadian public and governments.

This information is of utmost importance to governments as they plan for the future.

The government of Ontario has gone on record saying that the census information is vital to every decision they make. The same is true for all levels of government.

Good decision making can only be done with accurate information.

Information gathered voluntarily will be skewed and the public will suffer with bad decisions made on inaccurate information.

Do Clement and Harper not understand this or do they simply think it will get them more neo-conservative votes?

Either way this is the issue that must see them leave office - for the good of Canada.