Census - overbudget, understaffed and now it's late.
Ed Deak @ Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:42 am
PPP stands for Plundering the Public Purse.
There's no way any PPP could, or would be "cheaper" than government services, because the costs must come out of the public's pocket, no matter which way !!!!!!!!!!!
The biggest fraud of this system is when they propagandize that, "investors", and especially "foreign investors" bring anything.
They don't "bring" and would be stupid to bring anything. The purpose of investment is to "take" from the public, not to "bring".
How people can fall for this lie is beyond comprehension.
Ed Deak.
rearguard @ Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:46 pm
I found an interesting comment on <a href="http://home.primus.ca/~donrogers/postcensus/overdue.htm">countmeout.ca</a> (click link for full commentary): <blockquote>Things got so bad that Census management were telling their enumerators to make up fictitious names if they could not obtain the real names of persons residing in a dwelling. If three persons lived in a house, it would be OK to report them as Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Donald Duck! By so doing, <strong>we allege that Census employees violated the Statistics Act by knowlingly providing false information to the Census</strong>. Will those workers receive a threatening letter from Ivan Fellegi, the Chief Statistician, threatening fines or jail for violating the Statistics Act, as some Canadian citizens received? We hope not.</blockquote>
sthompson @ Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:03 pm
So if we refused the census on the grounds of Canadian sovereignty they just named us after iconic American cartoon characters/corporate mascots. Nice. Yet completely in line with StatsCan's apparent thinking on this.
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Don't want to be an American idiot / One nation controlled by the media / Information age of hysteria / It's calling out to idiot America.--Green Day
SphinxMontreal @ Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:53 pm
The real shame here is that the census was originally
instituted to benefit the public. Along the way, some
genius government officials decided to turn the census
into an information gathering witchhunt.
Let's see what other brilliant ideas these morally
corrupt thieves come up with to grab the people's cash.