Count Me In!

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Count me in (with apologies to Gary Lewis and the Playboys)

Give us back the long form census - Count me in!
Information we rely on, through thick and thin
It's a source of crucial data that we never doubt
If you think that we don't care -- you can't count!

When you count the ones who need it, count me too.
Towns and cities -- every province -- think it through!
Public transit, schools and health care, even business too!
Tory pollsters -- yes, even you!

It's a picture of our nation over time!
Stealing such a source of knowledge, that's a crime!
Census data serves a purpose, tells us who we are
How we've changed and done so far!

When you count the mess you're making -- count this too
Once it's gone we can't replace it - count me blue
Just be sure you count the cost, and when the counting's through
Count me mad as hell ... with you!

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[Shaitan051]

Got my reminder for the 2011 Census today. Still not getting filled out. I don't have a phone and I'm not going to stand outside the 7-11 calling my government. I have the option to do it online but but I have to give them a phone number? That's like requiring a VCR to play DVDs

No data for you bucky.

[lfc956]

The death of the long form is a disaster for people who plan health care and social services.  It's like the the Rhinocerus Party's joke about eliminating poverty by eliminating stats Canada has come true. If you don't document a a problem, you have no moral obligation to fix it.

[UncleSack]

Well McIntoski, I don't know what I've said that would lead anyone to believe that I have no respect for democracy or freedom...but clearly you still don't get it, so I accept your surrender....

[McIntoski]

@UncleSack I see no point in responding to you. Your mouth is bigger than your brain, and your delusional characterizations are a poor excuse for arguments. And while you may pretend otherwise, you clearly have no respect for the democratic process or the freedoms of those who do not share your misguided views.

[UncleSack]

McIntoski you, and the fascist losers in this video, are wrong. You can dress it up with witty high-school level 'skits' all you want, but the fact is that you're pro-oppression and pro-government domination, and that is anathema to democracy and freedom. You, and your Alinsky-loving, Obama-sucking ilk need to go straight to hell.

[McIntoski]

@UncleSack Get a grip. It doesn't take a "desperate left" to see that spending millions more taxpayer dollars on less reliable stats is bad policy. A libertarian such as yourself should see this, if nothing else.

[UncleSack]

I don't agree with you McIntoski. At all. It's a fabulous idea to give Canadians more freedom from bureaucracy. My only complaint is that the Conservatives never go far enough in clear cutting more public servants, inane regulations and wasteful spending. This is a minor issue blown out of proportion by a desperate left. I think you'd be happier moving to the U.S., it's fast becoming the socialist, oppressive paradise you clearly crave, thanks to that rotten jackass Obama...

[McIntoski]

@sweatysock9 Funny quote. But regardless of your personal cynicism towards the public service, I think we can agree that the Conservative plan for the long form census is a poor example of "trimming the fat", if that was ever the intent. Killing statistics is liposuction to the brain.

[sweatysock9]

@McIntoski Then I have this bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

Do you honestly think that the civil service uses the data of the census for the benefit of Canadians, or do you think that they use it for their own empire-building exercises? Or is yet another set of government programs with yet another layer of managerial non-jobs in the best interests of Canadians? As the saying goes; "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy".

[UncleSack]

McIntoski...did you go to U of T? UOttawa? Queens? I'm trying to figure out what level of "slow" you are before my next response...