Lorne Gunter

The National Post and the Ottawa Citizen have editorials. (The Post acknowledged that Maclean’s broke the story; the Citizen did not.)

Lorne Gunter has become almost (though not quite) the lone defender of the government’s otherwise cryptic attack on the random distribution of the census long form. I am not particularly interested in his ethical argument against the long form. There is a case to be made that it is unacceptably intrusive for a government to compile such data, but:

Okay, we admit it. Blogger and regular Macleans.ca commenter Olaf’s righteous fury (Warning! Blue language!) at Lorne Gunter‘s column in today’s National Post got the better of us, and we had to read it, red card or no red card. It’s not an especially remarkable addition to his oeuvre, really. He’s annoyed, still and again, at the statistical malarkey of which the jealous guardians of anthropogenic global warming are capable. Or, more accurately, in this case he’s annoyed at what he suspects was an honest mistake by said guardians that went unquestioned because it produced the answer they expected and hoped for.

The quote:

Our Chris Selley deserves more traffic for his effortless filleting of one of Lorne Gunter’s more ill-considered musings. So go read him.

Over on the National Post‘s Full Comment blog, Lorne Gunter wants to know whether the justice Zofia Cisowski seeks for her son, Robert Dziekanski, “include[s] questions into her own role into her son’s death.”