Is pricing carbon the future or the past?
What was lost and what was spent
A year and a half after the chief statistician resigned, Statistics Canada’s chief economic analyst resigns.
Didn’t somebody once say something about reason over passion?
Liberals are spending much of the day discussing the concept of “evidence-based policy”—this curious and revolutionary and courageous notion that the government’s actions and promises should acknowledge demonstrable reality. Munir Sheikh, the former chief statistician, addressed the convention this morning. Delegates have spent the rest of the day in sessions dedicated to discussing this novel approach in the context of various policy areas.
Munir Sheikh reviews the demise of the long-form census, his resignation and the ramifications for Statistics Canada.
Stephen Gordon responds to the new Chief Statistician’s claim there’s “no scientific basis” for claiming the National Household Survey will be flawed.
The Canadian Press obtains census-related e-mails sent to the Prime Minister’s Office during the last week of July.
The Conservatives’ critics inside the government have a remarkably short shelf life
The Canadian Press has an early dispatch on the census documentation released to the industry committee today. Kady O’Malley posts a few bits of correspondence.
A committee hearing on the long-form census spells out the epitaph for this whole sorry affair
More later on this morning, but early reviews are in from the Canadian Press, Globe, Star, Postmedia, CBC and CTV.