Posted by
Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on
Mar 26, 2006; 2:32am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/action-for-2006-Census-mouvement-pour-acceder-les-donnees-du-recenssement-2006-tp340p373.html
see below!
Tracey P. Lauriault
Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC)
Dept. of Geography, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa (ON) K1S 5B6
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On Mar 25, Cory Horner <
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>
> Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>
> >The 2006 Census is getting fired up and wouldn't it be nice to get that
> >treasure trove of civic data out to us citizens and NGOs for free?
> >
> >Anyone interested in putting a communication / lobby / grassroots
> >collective action together to try and tip the data scales in our favour?
> >
> Let's go! :)
>
> Is a paper petition our chosen tool? When the time comes that we have a
> stack of signatures, who (ie, which party) do we give them to? It's my
> understanding that individual MPs table petitions in the house and give
> a short speech as to why they shouldn't be ignored. After submitting
> the petition, do we:
> a) hope the government tables a bill, or
> b) adopt an MP in another caucus to put forth a private member's bill
> -- and then get everyone talking to their MP praising the bill?
i like your thinking!
Who knows about these things? Russel?
I contacted CPRN - Canadian Policy Research Institute yesterday to see if any one there
is looking at this and to get some advice.
>
> What are we pushing for? Free and unfettered access for all, or just
> improved access for non-profits?
looks like all!
Glancing at the StatsCan site, I see
> "free" data, and "priced" data.
the free stuff is very general and aggregated so it is the other stuff we want!
I for one would like to see the latter
> eliminated, and we make a case regarding the current cost recovery
> model, and the socio-economic benefits of its elimination. Are we
> purely focused on the 2006 data, or everything they've got?
I think lets start with census data, they do however have some nice stuff being collected
in the trade division, and some special surveys.
>
> 2006 Census Questions:
> <a href='
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partI/2005/20050416/html/decret-e.html#i2'>
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partI/2005/20050416/html/decret-e.html#i2</a>
>
> Conditions:
> <a
href='
http://www.statcan.ca/english/reference/conditions.htm'>
http://www.statcan.ca/english/reference/conditions.htm</a>
>
> Cheers,
> Cory.
>
Lets keep talking about this! We have made a space on the wiki to drop some stuff. Also
check out COACID and/or civicaccess on delicious to access some nice tagged docs on these
topics.
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