MPs will be debating Bill C-626 which proposes amending the Statistics Act this Friday November 7 to:

Reinstate the long-form census and expand the authority of the Chief Statistician of Canada.

The first reading of the text of An Act to Amend the Statistics Act / Projet de Loi C-626 Prèmiere Lecture was done on Sept. 22, 2014.

It was tabled by Ted Hsu, Liberal Member of Parliament for Kingston.

Here are some resources:

1. Fortunately, Evidence for Democracy has taken this on as a campaign, and the
2. Save The Census folks are also keeping us up to date on this issue with their Facebook page.
3. Ted Hsu also has some excellent information resources in the Bill C-626 Blog
4. the Datalibre.ca blog has a number of resources, which you can search
5. The Civicaccess.ca list also keeps an archives of all of its posts, and you can search find excellent resources there as well.
6. OpenParliament.ca has the essentials about the Bill
7. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) – All the latest on the census long-form debacle

Some recent articles:

• G & M, Murtaza Haider – Poor census data is crippling Canada’s ability to compete
• Radio Canada – Recensement : un député libéral veut rétablir le questionnaire détaillé
• G & M, Jennifer Ditchburn – MPs to debate bill to bring back long-form census axed by Conservatives
• Le Devoir – Le questionnaire détaillé obligatoire au coeur d’un projet de loi
• G & M, Paul Jacobson – Policy making suffering in Canada without the long-form census
• G & M, David Hulchanski, Robert Murdie, Alan Walks and Larry Bourne – Canada’s voluntary census is worthless. Here’s why
• Macleans, Aaron Wherry – The little guy’s big chance in parliament
• G & M, Sam Boshra – Why Canada avoids asking about race, and why that’s a problem
• Economic Justice, 2011 NHS – Environics Analytics makes critics’ fears reaility, and why you shouldn’t buy ‘CensusPlus’
• HuffingtonPost.ca , Murtaza Haider – When Harper Killed the Census He Robbed Canadians
• Toronto Star, Carol Goar – Eye-opening research stopped in its tracks: Goar
• G & M, Dean Beeby – Internal survey blasts Feds for termination of long-form census
• Global News, Anna Mehler Paperny – Health officials starved of census data pay for local info of their own (Many other articles here)
• iPolitics, B.J. Siekierski- StatsCan funding cut due to ‘census cycle’: spokesperson
• Global News, Patrick Cain and Anna Mehler Paperny – National Household Survey: Here’s what we know about what we don’t know
• CTV News – Census change makes it hard to track poverty: N.B. premier

ACTIONS:

• Evidence for Democracy has an online petition
• Write your MP, expecially focus on the Conservatives!
• Ted Hsu has a petition you can download