Tories scrap mandatory long-form census W. T. F. ???!!! I coined that "tough on wisdom" line in a
Macleans comment* a while back, but even I...well, there's always a new hitherto unimaginably pig-ignorant low for the Harperites, I suppose. Final straw. CPC must be defeated. ASAP.
Insiders who spoke to The Canadian Press on condition of anonymity decry a new world order within the agency since the Conservatives came to power in 2006 and legendary chief statistician Ivan Fellegi retired.
Employees were told a little over a year ago that there would be less emphasis on analysis. A highly praised survey on immigrants to Canada, for example, has been axed. Other analytical jobs, in areas such as business and trade statistics, and the aging population, have been eliminated.
Some employees say the agency will lose its status as the best statistical office in the world.
One Statistics Canada source said the move could have a negative impact on the dozens of provincial governments, community groups and other organizations that depend on the data for developing policy.
“It will be a disaster. A lot of policy across Canada has been based on that long form,” the source said.
*EFL re.
Shelly Glover & Cons 31/03/10:
If she was going to say these things, she could at least have had the wit to claim we Liberals "have the prison inmate vote locked up". Or that Dion lost because "he couldn't get prison inmates out to vote".
I'm sorry to learn, pace Teneycke, that numbers are in the tank for the Liberals. Also statistics. And empirical evidence.
But luckily, the Cons have locked up these dangerous offenders. "The Conservatives, tough on wisdom, tough on the causes of wisdom."
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