For those still scoring at home, the CEO of Alberta Health Services, Charlottetown City Council, the City of Greater Sudbury, Caledon town council, former chief statistician Sylvia Ostry, New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham, Spruce Grove City Council and the Planning Institute of British Columbia oppose the government’s changes to the census.
In such opposition, they join…
… the governments of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island and Nunavut, representatives from the United Way, Canadian Labour Congress, Toronto Board of Trade, Canadian Nurses Association and Canadian Public Health Association, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, city officials in Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer, Ottawa city council, the town of Smith Falls, the mayor of Fredericton, Penetanguishene city council, the mayor of Surrey, the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce, the chief economist of the Greater Halifax Partnership, the French Language Services Commissioner of Ontario, the Canadian Marketing Association, the executive director of the Société franco-manitobaine, the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, the United Church of Canada, the Anglican Church of Canada, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Civil Rights League, the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, the Quebec Community Groups Network, the Canadian Bar Association, the president of the CD Howe Institute, the Canadian Council on Social Development, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Economic Development Association of British Columbia, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the director of Toronto Public Health, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, Peterborough’s medical officer of health, the Ontario Public Schools Boards’ Association, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, the Canadian Library Association, the Statistical Society of Canada, the Executive Council of the Canadian Economics Association, the director of the Prentice Institute at the University of Lethbridge, the senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canadian Association for Business Economics, Ancestry.ca, the co-chairman of the Canada Census Committee, the National Statistics Council, former clerk of the Privy Council Alex Himelfarb, Mr. Census, former chief statistician Ivan Fellegi and former chief statistician Munir Sheikh.