The reviews are in

The Star Phoenix editorial board weighs in on the Cons' census claptrap:

More and more this is beginning to smack of the Tories in power trying to substitute ideological decisions for evidence-based ones.

This attempt to return to the anti-government politics of an unlamented bygone era is dismaying, but that's increasingly what the Harper government seems to be adopting as its chosen path.
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(N)othing about this fiasco makes sense except to those whose ideological blinders are on too tight and who consider Canadians gullible dupes who can be convinced to accept nonsense by repeating it over and over.