- INDU Committee Meeting Announcement: August 16, 2010
- Le Devoir: Sondage Angus Reid – Le recensement divise encore plus les CanadiensL’insatisfaction globale est en hausse, mais les sympathisants conservateurs appuient davantage Stephen Harper
- The Ottawa Citizen: Harper’s (census) Index: Not to be confused with Harper’s magazine’s index of ‘ironic statistics arranged for thoughtful
effect’ - Cyberpresse: Faut-il se recenser au Québec ?
- CBC Kady O’Malley: Liveblogging the possibly not-in camera Industry committee meeting
- Toronto Star: Advisory body says Clement wasting millions on census changes
- Cyberpresse: Un été de bullshit
- The Record Gazette: Letter: Long-form census protected women’s rights
- Globe and Mail: NDP seeks emergency debate on ‘integrity of the census’ NDP Leader Jack Layton speaks at an Ottawa news conference on July 6, 2010.
- Globe and Mail: Clement digs in heels and gains a supporter on census
- CBC News: Census earns vote from Charlottetown council
- Toronto Sun: Feds need to focus on economy, not census
- The Star Phoenix: Census change a step back: Lees
- Progressive Economics Forum: National Statistics Council Statement on Census
- The Mark: A Country Founded On Statistics
- Global Winnipeg: Tories tweak short-form census in wake of language protest http://www.globalwinnipeg.com/entertainment/Tories+tweak+short+form+census+wake+language+protest/3389773/story.html
- Calgary Herald: Pay for census
- Telegraph Journal: Francophones pan census move
- The Tyee: Harper’s Latest Step in Building ‘Tea Party North’
- National Post: Dan Arnold: Astonishing ineptitude on the census
- Edmonton Journal: Alberta health chief slams census changes Planning efforts hindered, Duckett says
- Samara: “The risk is a debate that erodes public confidence in the importance of our census“
- Alex’s Blog: Bargain Basement Citizenship
- Le Droit: Boycottons le recensement!
- The Chronicle Herald: Feds do belong in census business
- The Globe and Mail: Should Tories, Liberals and New Democrats just give up on Quebec?
- The Ottawa Citizen: Fiscal conservatism loses out again
- The Hill Times: It will be difficult for Tories to recover from census debacle
- inews 880: Health boss wants mandatory census
- Ottawa Citizen: Fiscal conservatism loses out again
- Globe and Mail: Clement performs, Harper coaches as Tory lead narrows
- Toronto Star: Travers: Liberals look on as Tories vandalize Canada
- Angus Reid Public Opinion Poll: Hostility Towards Census Changes Remains the Norm in Canada No signs of controversy dying down, as a majority of Canadians continue to call on the federal government to back down.
- Star Phoenix: Census isn’t privacy concern
- Times Transcript: Acadian group celebrates latest census changes
- The Montreal Gazette: Conservatives sweat the small stuff too much
- The Barrier Examiner: Census data should be available to all
- City View Airdrie: Voluntary long-form census respects Canadians’ privacy
- Vernon Morning Star: City protests census change
- National Statics Council: Press Release Aug 13,
- My Kawartha: A matter of privacy MP Dean Del Mastro says filling out full census shouldn’t be mandatory
- rabble.ca: Focus on the census shows Canadians won’t take Harper’s bait
- The Telegraph Journal: Why won’t feds count at-home mothers?
- WOMEN – The Telegraph Journal: Census: the less we know, the less we know
- Women – L’étoile: Moins on en sait…
- Globe and Mail: Census debate is nothing new
Prime minister John Diefenbaker, shown in Toronto on Nov. 3, 1959, was also concerned about the intrusive nature of some questions on Canada’s census. - Toronto Star: Canada’s census, intrusive? Nothing like the alternatives
- The Globe and Mail: In his quest for a majority, the PM has fallen off the best path The Conservatives have spurned the ‘big tent,’ appealing to core voters but alienating wobblies andmoderates
- Ottawa Sun: Feds need to focus on economy, not census
- CBC news: Layton calls for urgent census debate
- Ottawa Citizen: Commons committee deadlocked over census talks
- The Tyee: Opinion Census Ruckus: I’m with Harper on This One (ahum – he has not read his facts nor does he know the law)
- Muchmore Canada Magazine: Hostility towards census changes remains the norm in Canada
- Radio Canada: La controverse rebondit en Cour
- The Hill Times: Conservative fundraisers calling from PMO: party member ‘I received a call from the PMO asking if I would like to make a donation,’ says Jonathan Berkowitz
- The Record: Tories blink on census: change short-form, drop jail penalty
- The Mark: With all the current wrangling over the fate of the long-form census, we should recall the vital role stats has played in Canada’s history.
- The Globe and Mail: Even God ordered a census Like Moses’s nemesis the Pharaoh, the federal government has turned a deaf ear
- CBC: Orders of the Day – Just when you thought there was nothing on the Hill sked today…
- CTV news: Conservatives make changes to short-form census
- The Edson Leader: Decision has little impact: area officials
- The Calgary Herald: Fraser Institute looking for donations to oppose census
- Times & Transcript: Politics of losing our census
- CBC: No more census concessions, Clement vows
- The Western Standard: Fraser Institute: We’re getting pilloried over support for making long-form census voluntary
- The Globe and Mail: Jim Flaherty’s census defence: Just ask them
- The Globe and Mail: PM gets Barenaked before getting down to business
- The Montreal Gazette: Census consensus eludes premiers: Several scold Harper
- Inside Halton: Long census benefits have-nots
- The Calgary Herald: Another Day, another census joke…
- The Toronto Sun: Stephen Harper’s headaches … is that it?: Snobelen
- The Globe and Mail: The end of online privacy
- The National Post: Stephen Gordon: The dog’s breakfast census
- The Telegraph: Making sense of the census debate
- National Post: George Jonas: Your data or your freedom
- The Calgary Herald: Fraser Institute looking for donations to oppose census
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First of all! A cool CBC Archive Video: 1961 census counts, not humourous but, mais bon, le plus Ça change le plus c’est la même chose!
Next up, Census Swag Perfect for summer – and no, datalibre.ca does not get a cut!
- Cyberpresse: Recensement: Ottawa ajoute deux questions sur les langues officielles
- Globe and Mail: Tories make language concession on census
- Inside Halton: Utter non-census
- CTV News: Conservatives make changes to short-form census
- Planetizen: Canadian Politicans: Come to Your Census!
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Unpaid work and the census: who cares?
- Telegraph Journal: Why won’t feds count at-home mothers?
- Globe and Mail: Sense still incomplete on the census: Clement is giving bad information to support his plan for bad-quality data. And on language, he admitted he was wrong
- Orangeville: Long-form census needed for a well-informed society
- The Amherst Citizen: In defense of the longform census
- Toronto Sun: Dumb gets dumber: Arbitrary federal deadline for stimulus funding makes absolutely no sense
- Liberal Party: Liberal Party in Canada Happy with Fed. Court’s Judgment on Census
- Caledon Enterprise: Town opposes census scrap
- National Post: Tories tweak census after language protest
- StatCan Media Advisory: Media advisory: 2011 Census
- The Province: The census mess: Clement blinks (sort of); critics want more
- David Akin: From the desk of Tony Clement. Re: Census
- Canada news Brief: Tories tweak short-form census in wake of language protest
- Global Winnipeg: Federal Court to fast-track census challenge
- Global Winnipeg: Clement tidied up census message for committee hearings, documents show
- CBC News: Census changes: The statement
- Vancouver Sun: Census change aims to keep it legal Language questions to be included on mandatory survey, Clement says
- CBC News: UPDATED – CensusWatch: Don’t mess with the francophonie. (Or the Acadians)
- Times Transcript: Now cometh the strong men
- The Melfort Journal: Voters voices matter in federal politics
- Globe and Mail Exclusive Commentary: Information must be Canada’s bedrock
- The Toronto Star: Tories twisted census findings: memos
- the Calgary Herald: The census scandal: What did they know…and when did they know it?
- Macleans: Worthwhile census submissions (III)
- 570 news: Region objects to cancelling long form census
- The Barrie Examiner: In short, the long-form census is valuable
- CBC News: Orders of the Day – Oh no! We’re running out of clever census-related puns, but not census-related news!
- National Post: Tasha Kheiriddin: The sad tale of Tony Clement
- Winnipeg Free Press: Group trying to kill Tory census changes faces Wednesday showdown in court
- Macleans: Worthwhile census submissions
- Toronto Sun: French language group to get ruling on census hearing
- Ottawa Citizen: Sharks swimming
- Globe and Mail: Court to fast-track census challenge
- CBC News: Census court challenge to be heard in Sept.
- CBC News: Census Document Dump: Yes, MINO!
- Globe and Mail: Hugh Segal If we let partisanship steer us, we’re in for a train wreck Conservative Senator Hugh Segal. The basic social fabric that constitutes Canada will be on the table in 36 months
- CBC news: StatsCan warned of poor census response rate
- Yahoo news: Feds tried to shape StatsCan census message
- Rabble.ca: The long shadow of the long census cancellation: A politician’s nightmare
- Canadian Press: StatsCan, feds at odds over messages around voluntary census: documents
- From the Globe and Mail:
- The Toronto Star: Clement misled Canadians on census: secret documents
- Post Media News: Clement tidied up census message for committee hearings, documents show
- CBC: Census Document Dump: Behind the scenes of a most unexpected public relations crisis
- The Globe and Mail: Statscan chief disagreed with Tory census changes, documents confirm
- The Globe and Mail: We still have time to reverse the census decision
- Yahoo News: Bloc: No census form? Well, then, no passport
- Globe and Mail: Use passport or EI as census leverage, Duceppe says
Bloc Québécois Leader suggests alternatives to jail term in bid to reach compromise over PM’s decision to scrap mandatory long form - Video: Evan Solomon CBC Inteview with Munir Sheikh
- Macleans: The question of civic duty
- Toronto Star: Bloc’s census proposal: Fill out long form or lose passport
- CTV news: Bloc census idea: Don’t complete the form? No passport
- Global National News Clip and article
- Winnipeg Free Press: StatsCan, feds at odds over messages around voluntary census: documents
- Orillia’s Packet ad Times: PM creates very issues he dismisses as folly
- The Gazette: Lawyer balks at request to speed up census court case
- Times and Transcript: Dieppe council to vote on census position
- Financial Post Comments: FP Letters: Voluntary census risks trivialized
- The Mowat Centre: The Census: A Compromise and the Seeds of Long-Term Change
- Planet S: Eff The Facts Why the Tories sabotaged the census
I contacted the Clerks office to find these documents today. Here is the link to the official transcript from the 40th PARLIAMENT, 3rd SESSION Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology EVIDENCE Tuesday, July 27, 2010, Meeting 29. I highly recommend that folks download documents from here before they disappear or are modified. Remember the consultation gone bad!
Also, here are the MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS, Meeting No. 29 Tuesday, July 27, 2010 in which the following motions appears:
1) That pursuant to Standing Order 108 and the committee’s study of the long-form portion of the Census, this Committee notes that, the long-form census is a vital tool for good policy-making and the decision to amend it was short-sighted and carried out without consultation. Therefore, the government should immediately reinstate the manditory nature of the long-form census. And, that this committee tables this report upon resumption of Parliament.
2) Dan McTeague moved, — The committee request under the authority of Standing Order 108 in relation to its study on the long-form portion of the Census, that the Minister table all documents and emails between Statistics Canada, the Privy Council Office and the Minister of Industry`s office on changes to the 2011 census. The committee also requests the analysis section of the Memorandum to Cabinet. And requests that said material be delivered to the committee within 5 days.
I called the Chair’s office, Michael D.Chong, Conservative MP Wellington – Halton Hills (613) 992-4179, and spoke to an official on the phone who explained that motions are binding and at times it is not unusual for documents to be late, as was the case here. The Documents that were requested were delivered to the members of the committee. The documents are Memorandum to Cabinet and we citizens are not privy to those.
Also, if the government of the day does not comply with committee motions, there are a number of actions that can be taken such as censure in the house or a consideration of contempt of parliament. These seem like compelling actions. I will someday read the House of Commons Practical Guide to Committees to see if there are any other procedural things of note.
Further, reports are produced from committee which include non binding recommendations. And the first part of this motion is the substance of the report – verbatum – that will be submitted to parliament when it resumes. It will be up to us to ensure that this one is.
Here is the INDU Committee Contact Information. The site is designed to make it near impossible to find information, but the clerk might be able to help you find what you need:
Michelle Tittley
Clerk of the Committee
Tel.: 613-947-1971
Sixth Floor, 131 Queen Street
House of Commons
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Canada
Fax: 613-996-1626
E-mail: INDU@parl.gc.ca
- Globe and Mail: We still have time to reverse the census decision
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Clementonomics
- Global News: Harper backs census form decision
- National Post: Marc Garneau: The long-form census is your civic duty
- Globe and Mail: Stephen Harper’s summer … so far
- Toronto Star: Census change devalues women’s unpaid work
- The Toronto Star: Paul Martin accuses Tories of ‘dumbing down’ Canada
- Le Devoir: Revue de presse – L’art de se tirer dans le pied
- The Toronto Star: Different takes on census
- The Telegraphy Journal: Census decision is a symptom
- Rabble.ca: No one should be surprised, let alone shocked, by PM’s census policy
- Cyberpresse: Les conservateurs se tirent dans le pied
- Cyberpresse: Conseil de la fédération: les premiers ministres ne s’entendent pas sur tout
- Radio Canada: Division au sujet du recensement
- Globe and Mail: Stockwell Day’s prisonyard of dreams
- Count Me In / Compte sur Moi RSS Feeds
- Hill Times: Census could spark election if polling trends continue into fall’What’s the downside for the opposition? If they hold up, they’ll pull the plug for sure,’ says EKOS’ Frank Graves
- Macleans: CensusWatch: Always make sure the right hand knows what the left hand is doing …
- Macleans: Why Stephen Harper thinks he’s smarter than the experts For the government relying on academic research is bad politics
- News1130: Axing long-form census does not resonate with Metro Vancouver Board Important data out of reach
- The Intelligencer: Killing census part of plan to keep us ill informed
- National Post: Stephen Gordon: Why libertarians can’t possibly support the census decision
- CBC: Census jail threats not ‘appropriate’: Harper
- Globe and Mail: Former Statscan chief makes last-ditch plea to save census Globe and Mail: Senseless census argument number four
- Macleans: Why Stephen Harper thinks he’s smarter than the experts On everything from the census to climate change, taxation and crime Why Stephen Harper thinks he’s smarter than the experts
- CBC News: CensusWatch: Always make sure the right hand knows what the left hand is doing …
- Rabble.ca: No one should be surprised, let alone shocked, by PM’s census policy
- Brampton Guardian: Census made sense
- The Vancouver Sun: Census fight kills woman’s fight to recognize unpaid housework
- Radio Canada: La prison n’est pas appropriée, dit Harper
- Globe and Mail: An alternative guide to the new census
- The Globe and Mail: Harper breaks silence on census, says jail threats are inappropriate
- National Post: Finding quarrel in a straw
- Globe and Mail: The long form will return. Voters won’t
- The Hook: Liberals urge action after Tories ignore order to produce census docs
- Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Engendering Changes in Unpaid Work in Canada
- The Chronicle Herald: Premiers urge private-sector stimulus
- Leader Post: Homemaker’s fight falls flat with scrapped census
- Progressive Economics Forum: Taxpayers and the Census
- Leader Post: Census row: Tories have lost the plot
- The Vancouver Sun: Metro Vancouver’s housing committee pushing for long form Census
- The Vancouver Sun: Census fight kills woman’s fight to recognize unpaid housework
- Canada.com: Finding a new StatsCan boss could be tough, observers say
- Liberals: Liberals keep up pressure in census fight
- Ottawa Citizen: Tories go wacky with policies on census, prisons
- The Windsor Star: Vander Doelen: Census invades privacy (more from the dark side)
- Winnipeg Free Gaps on census, emissions: Lack of unity dooms mandatory form
- Ottawa Citizen: A fear of the census
- Canada.com: Long census clearly outmoded, not needed (oye veigh!)
- Star Phoenix: Is anyone really upset about the census? (what so many negatives!)
- The record: Metro politicians want long census form back
- National Post: Rex Murphy: The perils of question 32B
- Western Standard: Premiers reveal an ideological divide on the census
- BC Local News: Long-form census loss not life-or-death issue
- Burnaby News Leaders: Census flap raises local concerns
- Hill Times: An opposition worth its salt will make census restoration primary electoral pledge Harper’s census moves set the stage for a diminution in government’s ability to be involved in ordinary lives and limit the government’s capacity to make clear choices for the common good.
- Hill Times: Using charter to fight a voluntary long-form census absurd
Mounting a high profile fight and letting people believe that our country will collapse if Canadians are forced to fill out the long form for StatsCan is preposterous. - Reuters: Canadian government says no to census compromise
- The Toronto Star: Census change devalues women’s unpaid work
- Star Phoenix: Census change a step back: Lees Saskatoon woman pushed for inclusion of unpaid work in ’90s
- Toronto Sun: Former head of Stats Can gets new job
- Globe and Mail: Lauded economist slams census decision Accepting award for public policy leadership, Sylvia Ostry says long-form census change is ‘shocking’ and ‘ridiculous
- The Toronto Star: Siddiqui: Harper’s Ottawa becomes Republican la-la land
- The Western Standard: Lady Humphrey on the census reform
- The Winnipeg Sun: If in doubt, it’s sexist
- The Chronicle Herald: The Economy: Hear thyself
- The Financial Post: The new Prohibition
- Winnipeg Sun: Census a matter of choice
- The Globe and Mail: Premiers’ meeting to plot census strategy Census not on the agenda – but it will likely be on the table
- Dalhousie University News: Don’t mess with the census
- The Vancouver Sun: Global statistics industry leaders call for reinstatement of Canadian long-form census
Note: I am receiving material by email from folks and this was the motherload of images I found in my mailbox this week. I mean no copyright disrespect, and hope that the Artists, if they see their piece here, and see that I have not properly referenced them, will take pity, and just send me their references with a link to their other work. I think it is important to keep a public record of all this material as it looks like we are going to be needing it! There are more cartoons here, here and here.
Congratulations Jonathan, Jean-Noé, Michael and Sébastien!
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- Ottawa Citizen: Stephen Harper’s magical departure from reality
- This Magazine: Margin of Error #5: Don’t just preserve the long-form census. Set its data free
- Cyberpresse: Harper ne veut pas d’élections à l’automne
- CBC news: PM touts economy as census furor ignored
- Radio Canada: Harper rebrassera les cartes
- Globe and Mail: NB Premier lashes out at Harper government over census comments
- The Toronto Star: Clement mocks critics of Tories’ census change
- Chronicle Herald: Long-form census on way out?
- Globe and Mail: Why Harper wasn’t asked about census
- Le Devoir: Retrait du formulaire long du recensement – Des solutions d’ailleurs déjà tentées ici Lettre à monsieur Ian McKinnon, président du Comité national de la statistique
- Cyberpresse: Hallucinations
- The Toronto Star: Goar: Separating fact from myth in the census saga
- The Toronto Star: Hébert: Harper burning his bridges
- The Globe and Mail: NB premier calls for more federal stimulus, questions census decision New Brunswick’s Shawn Graham says spending helped Canada weather recession, should be extended to avoid second dip
- Time Colonist: Stubborn stance on census foolish
- Ottawa Citizen: Stephen Harper’s magical departure from reality
- Globe and Mail: Parking woes top census fury, Jack Layton says
- The Province: Port Coquitlam woman’s fight to recognize unpaid housework lost in census changes
- Toronto Star: Premiers set nation’s agenda
- CTV: Premiers discussing thorny census issue: Selinger
- Toronto Star: Hébert: Harper burning his bridges
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