In June 2010, the Canadian government unveiled a grand experiment in data collection. In the name of privacy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper ended the mandatory long-form census for the country and swapped it out with a voluntary survey. Five years later, there is a mass scramble to make sense of a rapidly changing country. Senior Economist Sheila Block [2] discusses the gap in census data on racialized workers in this article from Al-Jazeera America: What Happened When Canada Stopped Counting its Numbers? [3]
What Happened When Canada Stopped Counting its Numbers? [1]
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