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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I don't get why opponents think listing the number of bathrooms in their homes is a huge invasion of their privacy. Chances are that info was already publicly available if your property was ever listed on MLS. Stating the number of bedrooms and bathrooms in a home is part of EVERY real estate listing. What are people so afraid of? How is the big bad government going to use this info to invade your privacy?
I think the real issue here (if there even is an issue and this isn't something invented by the CPC) is laziness from people who don't want to spend the time to complete the census. Privacy concerns are a red herring, since StatsCan has a very strict privacy policiy.
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Nothing to do with lazyness and everything to do with undermining collection of statistics. As long as there are accurate statistics showing that there are innate inequalities in society, there's going to be academics and politicians trying to propose government programs and solutions to remedy inequalities.
It's rather funny how the Liberals, NDPers, academics, civic leaders et al defend the census in it's prior form (no pun intended) as claiming that it would disrupt the data that they need for planning programs etc. The conservative base would use the same arguement against it in that they find fault in government using any data on the long form census for anything. Conservative idiology views these attempts as unnecessary 'social engineering.' They do not want more social programs but less social programs. Without data to show that there is a percieved problem, no one will propose a program!