Ottawa’This issue need not provoke an all-or-nothing allegiance’In response to last week’s call , the National Citizens Coalition, Stephen Harper’s old haunt, sends along the following from NCC...
OttawaRomper stomper, bomper booApparently if you write to Tony Clement to express your support for his decision to change the census, he will personally thank...
OttawaThe great besmirchmentIn an op-ed for the Sun, Tony Clement manages to twice cite the fact that the long form census includes a question about the...
OttawaMore notes on a brouhahaMaxime Bernier blogs a defense. Conservative MP James Rajotte writes to Industry Minister Tony Clement seeking explanation. The...
OttawaLet us see whose fingers point bestThe Minister pointed to Statistics Canada, only Statistics Canada wouldn’t , or couldn’t, explain anything. And so now anonymous...
OttawaNo commentLate yesterday afternoon, as mentioned , the following was filed with StatsCan’s media office. Twenty-four hours later, the...
UncategorizedThat census debate, late Victorian editionThus spake the scientist and administrator G.B. Longstaff ( 1849-1921 ) in an address to the Royal Statistical Society on June...
OttawaTony Clement needs you (IV)Postmedia’s Shannon Proudfoot finds a taker : a senior economist with the Fraser Institute willing to support the government’s...
OttawaTony Clement needs you (III)Still no responses to my call for economists, statisticians, city planners and the like to step forward with a defence of the...