- 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
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Don Martin comments on Harper’s decision on the census included in the following article. August 12.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/12/don-martin-the-return-of-jack-layton/
“Mr. Harper’s decision and its false justification has tarnished a once-capable minister so badly that Tony Clement would, if he had an ounce of self-respect, resign from cabinet. Mr. Clement should’ve done what former Industry Minister Jim Prentice did when he was asked to consider ending the mandatory filing of the detailed census form several years ago. He told the idea’s proponents to shove it.
This is not a singular vote-changing issue, of course, but when added to other odd moves has redefined this pragmatic Prime Minister as prickly, ruthless and needlessly ideological.
No wonder Conservatives can’t wait for this summer to end. It’s been a non-stop series of bad decisions complicated by worse communications to appease a hard-right support base with nowhere else to go.
Read more: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/12/don-martin-the-return-of-jack-layton/#ixzz0wRUkOJyd“
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