If the following can be useful to anyone, please help yourself! A selection of input, and Q & A’s. Questions and input are related to Statistics Canada census work in 2011: May 2, Census of population collection began, all households receive May 10, Census of Agriculture collection was underway, all farmers June & July, National Household Survey (used to be […]
Sunday, June 5, 2011 Mr. Wayne Smith Chief Statistician Statistics Canada Ottawa. Ontario, Canada Dear Mr Smith, I write this letter in the knowledge that you consider the information requested in your current census form as vital for purposes, which are of little interest or value to me personally whereas my right to […]
The Government did not pass legislation to make the “Census Long Form” mandatory. Instead, the name was changed to “National Household Survey” which enables data collection on individuals to proceed day in and day out, every year. (Censuses are limitied to once every 5 years, surveys are not.) (item #1 below) I just stumbled across the […]
Sentencing takes place: Thursday January 20, 9:30 Courtroom #8 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Provincial Court on 19th Street. “What IS the law?” see 2011-01-21 . StatsCan “surveys” that take place in between censuses, are, according to the Statistics Act NOT mandatory. They are voluntary and the sanctions (a fine and/or jail) do not apply. Taking us back […]
http://www3.quicklaw.com/cgi-bin/LNC-prod/lnetdoc.pl?DOCNO=738 (INSERT: This is a “quick law” interpretation of the proceedings. I of course have my objections. A notable couple: “There was no interest in the individual responses, which were protected by anonymity.”. FACT: it used to be the case that individual records on the census data base did not have actual names on them.(The […]
It is so amazing! Yesterday I was putting information up on the blog, coming across things I had forgotten entirely. Like a warning from Robert F. Kennedy Jr to Canadians about water: Americans have designs. The same from Peter Lougheed, former Premier of Alberta, etc. Along with various emails related to increasing militarization. I went […]
ITEM B (Sorry for the duplication of info. This is a paste together of parts of documents used for different purposes. /S) CANADA, THE CHARTER RIGHT, PRIVACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION “In fostering the underlying values of dignity, integrity and autonomy, it is fitting that s. 8 of the Charter should seek to protect a biographical […]
(You may want to scroll down to some of the high-lighted text to get the flavour of the arguments, skipping the details.) EXCERPTS FROM LEGAL OPINIONS SECTION 8 CHARTER RIGHT TO PRIVACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DETERMINATION OF WHAT IS “REASONABLE” Note: Section 8 of the Charter protects citizens against “undue search and seizure”. Near the end […]
(2) EMAIL FROM TONY CLEMENT’S OFFICE, MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CENSUS. AND MY REPLY. (Today, #2 comes before #1!) (I phoned before sending this. I don’t have much faith that these communications get dealt with. All you can do is try. The email from Clement’s office follows my reply to it.) SENT: September 17, 2010 […]
Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, announced on June 29th that the census long form is no longer mandatory. � Well-intentioned people immediately campaigned for a “mandatory” nature to the long form. � The public discussion is woefully uninformed. It does not address the two critical issues: (1) What does the law say (Charter Right to […]