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Originally Posted by zuluking
Explain to me why the long form census should be mandatory and why it would be undermined by the apparently ubiquitous lazy, illiterate a-holes that will immediately refuse filling it out without the threat of jail time.
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This is the exact question that has me wondering why the Liberals are drawing a line in the sand here, and not on more critical issues.
DA articulated quite nicely why the form has to be mandatory, but his answer does not touch on what I think would be the larger issue: Why is the long form needed at all?
The average person generally won't understand the purpose behind it, so to gain political traction on this, the Liberals have to not only educate the public on the reasons the long form exists in the first place, but has to motivate that same public to care enough for it to become an issue.
I simply don't see that happening.