Below is a link to transcripts and submissions to the:
40th PARLIAMENT, 3rd SESSION
Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology
EVIDENCE CONTENTS
Friday, August 27, 2010
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Question from a university data librarian to Statistics Canada:
I am wondering about the impact of cancelling the 2011 Census https://www.datalibre.ca/ on the downstream products that are populated with Census long form data: E-STAT, Topic Based Tabulations, Community and CT and Cumulative Profiles.. etc.. and the data used for thematic mapping.
I am thinking of all the research programs and academic courses that have built these downstream products into their curriculums and programs. What should I be telling students and profs about the future of these products?
What is StatCan’s strategy to deal with the downstream products?
I note there is a Main page for the new National Household Survey athttp://www.statcan.gc.ca/survey-enquete/household-menages/5178-eng.htm. Will the data collected from the National Household Survey simply be ported into these products? Will there be caveats added to each of these products informing users of the potential hazards of trying to compare 2006 and 2011 data?
After 10 days, the answer from Statistics Canada Communications:
This is the first time Statistics Canada will conduct the National Household Survey (NHS) and the Agency is currently working on many aspects of its development and implementation.
Information pertaining to custom, off-the-shelf, and downstream products that were previously populated with census long-form data has not yet been finalized.
Additional information will be added to Statistics Canada’s website (www.statcan.gc.ca) by following the hyperlink for the National Household Survey as it becomes available.
Thank you for your interest in the 2011 Census and the new National Household Survey. If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
So ah! StatCan is saying they dunnoh?
- Toronto Star: Health at risk if long-form census scrapped: experts
- AM630 CHED Radio: Support grows for the long form census
- Montreal Gazette: PM’s top aide expected step aside
- Radio Canada: Levée de boucliers des professionnels de la santé
- Digital Journal: Losing the census will impact Canadian’s health
- CBC News: EKOS Extra: Who <3s you, mandatory long form census?
- Northern Life: Mandatory long form census influences health policy, research
- Winnipeg Free Press: Switch to voluntary census puts vulnerable at risk, coalition charges
- Cranbrook Daily Townsman: Voluntary long-form census will be more accurate than mandatory, says Abbott (just because there are more does not mean it is more accurate!)
- Digital Journal: Census Canada 2011 : Short Form Instructions
- The Sudbury Star: Census yields less reliable data
- The Daily Herald: Census changes concern health community
- The Hill Times: Summer Census crisis of 2010 was bizarre, unnecessary, overblown, says Powers
- Canadian School Board Association: The Census Debate: How Will the Elimination of the Long-Form Census Affect Education in Canada?
- Toronto Star: Tories are clever tacticians
- Edmonton Journal: Poll showing Grits even with Tories deceiving
- Rabble.ca: Not Rex: The long and the short – census, guns and more
- The McGill Daily: Student government opposes census changes
- EKOS Politics: RACE DEADLOCKED AS CONSERVATIVES FALTER ON CENSUS DECISION
- Momentum Magazine: Census Counts Bicycles Too
- The Hill Times: How justified are privacy, coercion concerns related to long-form census? Since both the penalties and the content of the questionnaires are the government’s prerogative, why did they not simply address both issues within the context of its review of the census?
- Montreal Gazette: The challenge: Getting Canadians to fill out the voluntary census
- Globe and Mail: Canadian rock star Hawksley Workman on the census controversy
- Winnipeg Free: Press Brouhaha over census farcical
- CPAC sessions on Aug. 27
- The Cranbrook Townsman: The new voluntary census
- Globe and Mail: Census ‘raspberries’ put Tories on par with Liberals
- Calgary Herald: End of mandatory census ‘mindless,’ government warned
- Times&transcript: Taking care of the care givers in New Brunswick
- The Vancouver Sun: Canadians offering donations to Francophone group’s census battle
- Global National: Census changes impact statistical integrity, hearing told
- National Post: Scrap the long form
- Rebuttal to the above: Something more effective
- Post Media News: Long-form census ‘a public good,’ committee hears
- Caledon Enterprise: In response to Mr. Paul Smith and your queries on the census
- Canadian Press: Tories promote ignorance, say Liberals
- Fogarty Law Firm: Canada’s proposed 2011 Census reform: Are concerns of opposition parties and the media legitimate?
MEDIA ADVISORY: Health-care professionals protest cuts to long form census
TORONTO – Sept. 1, 2010 – Medical and population health researchers and health-care professionals are convinced that the cancellation of the mandatory long form census will create a significant health risk for Canadians. That’s why they are participating in a series of media events in cities across the country on Thursday, September 2.
Initiated by the “Save the Census Campaign”, being spearheaded by social planning bodies across Canada, these events will feature Medical Officers of Health, physicians, nurses, medical researchers, representatives of Community Health Centres and other health-care professionals who are concerned about the health implications of this decision.
“Long form census data is used to make decisions about local health care and public health services, and as a foundation for population-based research into medical conditions and diseases. Loss of this data will make it more difficult to address the pressing health needs of Canadians,” said Dr. David McKeown, Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto.
Events are planned for Thursday, September 2nd in Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Confirmed participants include Medical Officers of Health, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO), the Canadian and Ontario Epidemiological Societies, and front-line medical researchers.
EVENT LISTING
TORONTO
Tomorrow, Thursday September 2nd, 10:00 a.m.
Women’s College Hospital, Main Lobby, 76 Grenville Street, Toronto (please note there is NO on-site parking)
Organizer: John Campey, Social Planning Toronto (416) 351-0095 x 260
Speakers:
- Dr. David McKeown, Medical Officer of Health, City of Toronto
- Rob Milling, Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO)
- John McLaughlin, Vice-President, Population Studies and Surveillance, Cancer Care Ontario
- Anne-Marie Holt, President, Ontario Association of Public Health Epidemiologists
- Cherie Miller, Director of Community Health, Regent Park Community Health Centre
OTTAWA
Thursday, September 2nd, 10:00 a.m. Carlington Community and Health Services, 930 Merivale Road, Ottawa ON
Organizer: Peggy Taillon, Canadian Council on Social Development (613) 236 8977 x 1
Speakers:
- Dr. Isra G. Levy, Chief Medical Officer of Health, City of Ottawa
- Michael Birmingham, Executive Director Carlington Community & Health Services and National Association of Community Health Centres
- Nancy Watters, Registered Nursing Association Ontario, Eastern Ontario Representative
SUDBURY
Thursday, September 2nd, 10:00 a.m., City of Lakes Family Health Team Sudbury Site, 960 Notre Dame Avenue, Unit C. Sudbury
Organizer: Janet Gaspirini, Social Planning Council of Sudbury (705) 675-3894
Speakers:
- Dr. Chris Bourdon, Chief of Staff, Sudbury Regional Hospital
- Isabelle Michelle, Sudbury District Health Unit
- Dr. David Marsh, Associate Dean, Community Engagement, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
WINNIPEG
Aboriginal Health and Wellness Center of Winnipeg, 181 Higgins Avenue (Time to be confirmed)
Organizer: Wayne Helgason, Winnipeg Social Planning Council (204) 943-2561
Speakers:
- Darlene Hall, Executive Director, Aboriginal Health and Wellness Center of Winnipeg
- Sandra Gessler, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba
EDMONTON
Thursday, September 2nd, 1:00 PM, Friends of Medicare Office, 10512 122nd St, Edmonton
Organizer: David Eggen, Friends of Medicare (780) 423-4581
Speakers:
- Dr. Colin Soskolne, President, Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- John Kolkman, Research Coordinator, Edmonton Social Planning Council
VANCOUVER
Organizer: Scott Graham, Social Planning and Research Council BC. (604) 718-8501
For more information, contact:
John Campey, Social Planning Toronto (416)351-0095 x 260 (cell) 647-283-9657
Peggy Taillon, Canadian Council on Social Development (613) 236-8977.
All of the session of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (August 27, 2010) are now available as Video on Demand on CPAC. The Sessions include:
MPs are continuing to study a plan to change Canada’s long-form census. Several witnesses are appearing to discuss the controversial proposal, which would make the long form voluntary but sent to more homes.
The first panel features Mel Cappe, president of the Institute for Research in Public Policy, Ian McKinnon, chair of the National Statistics Council, Joseph Lam, vice-president of the Canada First Community Organization, James Turk and Michael Ornstein from the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Clément Chartier, president of the Métis National Council, and farmer James Henderson.
The second panel features Micheal Vonn of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Michael Veall, economics professor at McMaster University, Jean-Pierre Beaud, dean of political science and law at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Victor Oh, honourary president of the Mississauga Chinese Business Association, Denis Bélisle, vice-president of the Federation of University Professors of Quebec, talk radio host Dave Rutherford, and Ken Murdoch, coordinator of the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.
The third panel features Peggy Taillon, president and CEO of the Canadian Council on Social Development, Pierre Noreau, president of the Association francophone pour le savoir, Xinsheng (Simon) Zhong, executive director of the Toronto Community and Culture Centre, and Lawrie McFarlane, an editorial writer with the Victoria Times-Colonist.
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative – aka Prof. Gordon found data in the 2001 Census Handbook pp. 29-34 that did a great comparison of census questions between 1871 and 2001 and then added 2006. His analysis and the table are very enlightening!
This blog post Census Questionnaires – They’ve been long for a long time! has links to almost all of the questionnaires / schedules since the BNA Act of 1867.
- Le Devoir: Recensement: Nature sermonne Ottawa Harper a pris une décision à «courte vue», dit le prestigieux magazine américain
- Le Devoir: Ignorance mensongère
- CBC News: Liberals to table census bill
- Orangeville Citizen: Harper, McGuinty: contrasting leadership styles
- Macleans: The census: power, knowledge, and role-reversal
- Macleans: Conservatives slammed by science journal over census scrapping
- CBC News: MPs get earful on long-form census
- PostMedia News: Census the least of Canadians’ privacy concerns: Civil liberties group
- National Post: Census the least of Canadians’ privacy concerns: civil liberties group
- The Globe and Mail: Census burden ‘colossally inflated,’ MPs told
- Troy Media News: Why use coercion to collect census data?
- The Toronto Star: Census changes a ‘disservice’ to Canadians, MPs told
- The Globe and Mail: Canada goes off the statistical standard The leading science journal Nature is right to criticize Canada’s abandonment of the mandatory long-form census
- The Globe and Mail: Science journal attacks Harper’s ban on long census Provides essential information for planning the future, professors say in Nature
- The Vancouver Sun: Census changes impact statistical integrity, hearing told
- Global News: Census changes impact statistical integrity, hearing told
- The Mark: In a knowledge-based economy, we need more, not less, evidence-based policy design.
- Rabble.ca: The census and civil liberties: Interview with Micheal Vonn
- Abbotsford Mission Times: Long-running beef with census
- CFRA Radio: Liberals Slam Feds Over Census
- Inside Toronto.com: Mandatory long-form census paints picture of youth suicide
- Toronto Sun: Grits pushing census law
- Edmonton Journal: Alternatives to census long form road to privacy ‘disaster,’ expert says
Critics line up to attack Harper government’s elimination of traditional survey - The Telegraph Journal: A litany of mistakes
- The Toronto Sun: Committee tries to make sense of census
- Financial Post: Survey will ‘never be comparable’ to census
- The Calgary Beacon: WHY USE COERCION TO COLLECT CENSUS DATA?
- National Post: Liberals plan to take census issue to Commons
- Vancouver Sun: Long-form census ‘a public good,’ committee hears
- Western Catholic Reporter: Keep mandatory long form census: Catholic Bishops
- CBC news: Committee wants long-form census reinstated
- The Chronicle Herald: It’s time to hold Harper to account
- The Montreal Gazette: Census ‘least of privacy concerns’ Creating more risk. Civil liberties group fears fallout if changes made
- Macleans: The census show trials
- Radio Canada: Nature dénonce Ottawa
- Sudburry Star: Census debate rages
- CBC: Committee wants long-form census reinstated
- The Montreal Gazette: Survey results not comparable to census data, Statistics Canada chief says
- The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada: Statement
- Medicine Hat News: Spotty data gives Statistics Canada cloudy forecast on environment: report
- Canada East: Spotty data gives Statistics Canada cloudy forecast on environment: report
- Canadian Press: Environmental data only so-so: StatsCan
- Macleans: And now, algebra
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Time Spent on the Long Form Census
- NJN News: Scrapped mandatory census cuts even deeper for disability advocacy group
- Calgary Herald: Commons committee deadlocked over census talks
- CBC NewsL Economists pan census change: poll
- The News: This many voices can’t be wrong
- Langley Advance: Conservatives don’t need accuracy
- Xtra: Why the census matters to queers
- The Spec: Tories want to keep us ignorant
- CNW: Media Advisory – Canadian Association of Police Boards
- Opinion 250: City Calls for Return to Long Census
- Post Media News: Survey results not comparable to census data, Statistics Canada chief says
- Post Media News: Interim Chief Statisticians Views @StatCan
- Ottawa Citizen: Survey results not comparable to census data, Statistics Canada chief says
Shesh! Even the cops want the long form back! Along with doctors, nurses, business economists, political scientists, sociologists, social planning councils, cities, provinces…
- Globe and Mail: Police take on Harper over census
- Le Devoir: Recensement – Le Comité de l’industrie entendra de nouveaux témoins
- Winnipeg Free Press: The long, and short of census
- The Chronicle Herald Science: No sense in Tories’ approach to census http://thechronicleherald.ca/Science/1197855.html
- Annex to the 2011 Census Short Form Questionnaire: Order in Council
- Winnipeg CTV: Business economists oppose census change: survey
- Le Devoir: Recensement: forte grogne au Québec
- Hill Times: Tory committees will help ministers avoid missteps ‘This would probably lead to making better and more palatable decisions,’ says Solberg
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Time Spent on the Long Form Census
- CB Online: Biz economists overwhelmingly oppose census change: Survey
- Toronto Star: MPP wants census restored
- Cyberpresse: Les économistes s’opposent au recensement volontaire
- Hill Times: Conservatives’ census decision could affect party’s outreach to ethnic Canadians ‘Any rationalization to say this is a vote winner is a stretch, for any group of Conservatives,’ says Nanos
- The Hill Times: Grits call for Mayrand to investigate Tory fundraising practices
- The Hill Times: Is privacy really at the heart of mandatory census change? Using it to justify the abolishing of a mandatory form reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. Worse, the proposed changes to the government census do not diminish but rather increase privacy concerns.
- Globe and Mail: Canada’s customs inquisition
- Opinion 250: City of Prince George
- Cranbrook Daily Townsman: Voluntary long-form census will be more accurate than mandatory, says Abbott
- Digital Journal: Media Advisory – Canadian Association of Police Boards
- The Progressive Economics Forum: Flanagan on the Census
- Globe and Mail: Should we just shut up and do what Statistics Canada tells us to do? (Do read this which corrects the errors in Flanagan’s article)
- rabble.ca: The long shadow of the long census cancellation: A politician’s nightmare
- The Grove Examiner: Federal census a concern for Spruce Grove city council
- Seaway News: Get ready for a possible fall federal election!
- National Post: Tories tweak census after language protest
- The Barrie Examiner: Voluntary census almost pointless
- The Star Phoenix: Red herrings and bogeymen
- Standard Freeholder: Census fallout
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