"I hope that the 2011 national housed survey is a colossal failure"

[Pierrot Péladeau]

Hi,

This Globe and Mail article implies that there are kind of two opposing
movements:
- those who want the census and survey to work anyway as these imperfect
tools better than nothing ; and
- those who want them to fail so to prove the need to reinstate the
mandatory long form census.

Census Day, 2011 – dawn of a new information-gathering era
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/census-day-2011-dawn-of-a-new-information-gathering-era/article2016837/

Are these movements significant ? Or just some journalist's magnifying
glass' artefacts ?


Pierrot Péladeau
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[Russell McOrmond-3]

2011/5/11 Pierrot Péladeau <[hidden email]>:
> Are these movements significant ? Or just some journalist's magnifying
> glass' artefacts ?

  I believe that those who are opposed to the mandatory long form
census being canceled are many orders of magnitude greater than those
who were concerned with the fact it was mandatory (IE: the alleged
justification for the cancellation).

  I also believe that the total of both of these groups still
represents a tiny sliver of Canadian society, and most simply don't
care and are too disengaged from politics to have given it a thought.


  Then again, I might just be being cynical from Canada's recent
presidential election...

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