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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. |