Ottawa

Hard to get (III)

Last month, a number of individuals from a number of organizations co-signed a letter seeking a meeting with the Industry Minister to discuss the government’s changes to the census.

I dropped a note to Al Hatton—the president of the United Way, whose name, phone number and email were provided at the bottom of that letter—and am told the group did not get a meeting with the minister. They were told, I am told, that the minister’s schedule did not permit a meeting and that it was suggested they instead appear before the industry committee. (One of those who co-signed the letter, Don Drummond, was a witness at the first day of committee hearings.)

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