The Globe and Mail - The census call is part of a trend on data collecting
Stuart Soroka, associate professor of political science at º«¹úÂãÎè and director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive at Queen’s University: "Recent decisions about the mandatory long-form census are not as much of an unforeseen development as many seem to suggest. They are part of a general trend in government away from the kind of data gathering that can be critical to good policy-making…"