Saturday, August 07, 2010

Burning questions

Since Tony Clement's latest excuse for gutting the long form census is that he (on behalf of the federal government) is sick of being the bad guy who requires that Canadians provide personal information for societal benefit, let's ask this. If the Cons really wants other to have to take responsibility for data collection, is it planning to cede Parliament's authority under s. 91 of the Constitution Act, 1867 respecting "The Census and Statistics" to allow provinces or other actors to collect data to the same standard currently provided for?

And if so, is there any particular reason why it would be better to have a patchwork of provincial or other subsidiary censuses, rather than a single standard that applies across the country as provided for by Canada's Constitution?

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