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But there's evidence the Harper government has little use for policy analysis, aside perhaps for assessing how a decision might play with its political base.
The extensive opposition to the Harper government's decision to make the mandatory long form of the census voluntary became quickly linked "to wider misgivings about how the Harper government uses data and evidence—or refuses to—in shaping policy" (John Geddes, www.macleans.ca, Aug. 8, 2010). Some have argued Prime Minister Stephen Harper had made an "ideologically-blinkered" decision (Susan Riley, Ottawa Citizen, July 30, 2010). Some of those opposed to the decision have called for "fact-based decision making," implying that had such an approach been adopted, Harper would not have made any changes in the census.
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Governments use three types of policy analysis to make decisions
But there's evidence the Harper government has little use for policy analysis, aside perhaps for assessing how a decision might play with its political base.
The extensive opposition to the Harper government's decision to make the mandatory long form of the census voluntary became quickly linked "to wider misgivings about how the Harper government uses data and evidence—or refuses to—in shaping policy" (John Geddes, www.macleans.ca, Aug. 8, 2010). Some have argued Prime Minister Stephen Harper had made an "ideologically-blinkered" decision (Susan Riley, Ottawa Citizen, July 30, 2010). Some of those opposed to the decision have called for "fact-based decision making," implying that had such an approach been adopted, Harper would not have made any changes in the census.
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