Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists (sciencemag.org)

Eloking writes with news that the government of Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be reinstating the mandatory long-form census that the outgoing government had ended. Science reports: "The new Canadian government today announced it would restore the country's mandatory long-form census. 'Our plan for open and fair government starts today with restoring the long-form census,' said Navdeep Bains, minister of innovation, science and economic development, speaking in Ottawa alongside Jean-Yves Duclos, minister of families, children and social development. 'We're focused on good evidence-based policies.' Bains said that Statistics Canada would be able to meet the 2 May deadline to roll out the 2016 census, which is conducted every 5 years, and that there would be no additional costs to making it mandatory. He confirmed that residents who fail to fill out the census could face criminal prosecution, an issue that contributed to the decision by the Harper government to make the 2011 census voluntary."

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Open and

[krashnburn200]

'Our plan for open and fair government starts today with restoring the long-form census,'

It's so entertaining that their plan for open government starts with requiring the citizens to provide data under threat of force.

Re:The farther left you go, the more you lose

[trout007]

Since when has evidence mattered to socialists? If a couple hundred million dead hasn't convinced them I don't think a long form will.