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Industry Minister Tony Clement says the federal government won't reverse its surprisingly controversial decision to do away the compulsory long-form census in 2011, even though it's raising a stink among liberal-minded critics, academics, sociologists, statisticians, some media outlets, economists, municipalities, urban planners, opposition MPs, Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser, former Statistics Canada chief statistician Ivan Felligi, Jewish and evangelical groups, and more. There are also open letters, online surveys and petitions calling on the government to keep the mandatory long-form census. The government seriously should rethink its decision to do away with it, considering the response.
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Feds should reverse census decision
Industry Minister Tony Clement says the federal government won't reverse its surprisingly controversial decision to do away the compulsory long-form census in 2011, even though it's raising a stink among liberal-minded critics, academics, sociologists, statisticians, some media outlets, economists, municipalities, urban planners, opposition MPs, Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser, former Statistics Canada chief statistician Ivan Felligi, Jewish and evangelical groups, and more. There are also open letters, online surveys and petitions calling on the government to keep the mandatory long-form census. The government seriously should rethink its decision to do away with it, considering the response.
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