On June 30th, the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the initial voices leading the criticism over the government decision to eliminate the census long-form questionnaire.
Since then, a groundswell of alarm has turned into a wall of opposition, across the political spectrum. Stay tuned to this page for all the CCPA's updates on the topic.
Updates
- Armine's open letter [2] to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada. [June 30]
- Listen to Armine appearing on CBC radio's As It Happens [3]. [July 5]
- Question Period for Census Decision [4] asks “Where’s the beef?” on the privacy complaints [July 7]
- An account of the growing backlash to the policy, in Rolling Thunder Census Review [5]. [July 9]
- Connecting the dots between Harper’s announcement and the one made by David Cameron in the UK just a few days later in Stephen Harper’s New BFF [6][July 10]
- A media roundup [7] of the latest top news stories and editorials on the issue. [July 12]
- Part two of the media roundup [8] [July 15]
- Christian and Jewish groups join the debate in New twist on census story [9] [July 15]
- Armine comments as The Fraser Institute finally weighs in on the Census [9] [July 16]
- Tracking the Globe and Mail On-Line Poll [10] on the Census and its “intrusive” nature [July 17]
- Taking a look at The Globe’s Experiment in Census-Taking [11] [July 18]
- The Anti-Information Information Society, Brought To You By the Anti-Government Government [12] [July 18]
- Marc Lee’s Census and Inequality blog [13] [July 19]
- Strange Bedfellows Invite Clement to Work With Them Towards Census Solution [14] [July 19]
- Armine writes a commentary in The Hill Times: Harper know best, or does he? [15] [July 19]
- The base of support for the census decision is pretty narrow. Read about Stephen Harper’s Gamble [16] [July 20]
- The real privacy issue that Harper should focus on: credit info [17] [July 20]
- While Harper weakens Census info, the United Nations thinks it is critical [18]. [July 20]
- A little midsummer night’s entertainment. Sing-along, laugh, scream with horror at the Census shenanigans [19]. [July 20]
- Armine appears with Laval Economist Stephen Gordon on Globeandmail.com to answer questions on Canada's long-form census debate [20]. [July 22]
- Is the resignation of the Chief Statistician a gamechanger? How the resolution to the Census saga could now unfold [21]. [July 23]
- Former Clerk of Privy Council remarks on Sheikh’s resignation and the “integrity and technical competence” of the public service [22] [July 23]
- A businessman weighs in, and notes even Clement uses census long form data [23] [July 23]
- The Hill Times commentary piece listed above has been updated. Click here [24] for the updated version. [July 26]
- For a continually updated roll-call of who has joined The Resistance to the Census decision, click here [25].
- For the bomb du jour, check out how Stephen Harper relied on Census data [26] for his 1991 master’s thesis on “political business cycles”. Sadly, that was then, and this is now. [July 26]
- Watch for this story in the Hill Times on Monday. A sneak peek at next week’s news cycle on the census: Enter the provinces [27] [July 29]
- Is this the core of an exit strategy for the Conservatives? [28] [July 29]
- Does the Census invade your privacy? Read about how it works and other alternatives to collecting information [29] [July 30]
- For a quick update on the top ten stories in the last 10 days, and how a court challenge could shape the future of the census saga, click here [30] [August 12]
- In today’s day and age, everyone wants to see and not be seen. How does the Google Zeitgeist inform the Census debate? [31] [August 19]
- It’s been a month since Munir Sheikh stepped down. Here’s how to select the next Chief Statistician of Canada. [32] [August 19]
- Conservative guru Tom Flanagan weighs in on the census, and Armine responds [33] [August 20]
- A letter to Prime Minister from David Dodge, Ivan Fellegi, Mel Cappe and Alex Himelfarb outlines how best to save Statistics Canada [34]. [September 22, 2010]
- Summer is over, and the Harper government wants you to think it’s too late to fix the census. Not so. This article [35], published in the Hill Times on September 27, 2010, shows the many upcoming events that could lead to the reversal of Harper’s decision. [September 24, 2010]