Ottawa

The census coalition

To those who oppose the government’s changes to the census you can now add the Statistical Society of Canada, the Federation of Canadian Municipalitiesthe Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Canadian Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communitiesthe 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 Alternativesthe Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canadian Association for Business Economics, and the editorial boards of the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Calgary HeraldWinnipeg Free Press and Globe and Mail.

They join the co-chairman of the Canada Census Committee, Ancestry.cacity planners in Calgary and Red Deerthe Canadian Association of University Teachers, the former head of Statistics Canada, and the editorial boards of the Toronto StarMontreal GazetteEdmonton Journal and Victoria Times-Colonist.

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