Canadian Census: 20,000 Jedi Worshippers

Lev13than writes "Canada.com is reporting that some 20,000 Canadians listed "Jedi" as their religion in the last national census (2001). Apparently this is the offshoot of an Internet joke which originated in Australia a few years back. The results are interesting on a couple of levels. While it show that some people may have too much time on their hands, it also raises questions of privacy rights, Internet activism and data integrity. Although it's not statistically significant given Canada's population of 31.5 million, 20,000 lightsabre-wielding census-takers is nothing to sneeze at. StatsCan's full report (with no mention of Jedis) can be found here."

Comments

Re:Religion Question?

[rcf]

You should question religion instead

Re:No wonder

[Clived]

Yay quantaman

We Canadians live in an environment of totally crappy government on all levels, an unaware and basically ignorant populace on all levels of local and global political awareness. With all the crap that this country is going through, a percentage of our voting public are going to subscribe to some mythical "religion" from a movie ? No wonder things don't work here. No wonder the rest of the world can't take us seriously.

This isn't the country I was looking for, sadly