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Celebrating the Census: Why Counting Matters for Canada’s Future

Friday, April 29, 2016 15:00to17:00
Arts Building Moyse Hall, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5, CA

Celebrating the Census: Why Counting Matters for Canada’s Future

Friday, April 29th

3-5 pm, followed by a reception

Moyse Hall, (Arts Building)

853 Sherbrooke Street,

Montreal, H3A 0G5

To register and to find directions to Moyse Hall, see the event website.

Please join our distinguished panel of speakers for a lively exploration of the value of the long-form census for Canada’s economic development, social cohesion, family well-being, and health equality. Our panel will include: The Honorable Jean-Yves Duclos, the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Professor Miles Corak (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa), Associate Professor Sébastien Breau (Geography, º«¹úÂãÎè), Ian Culbert (Canadian Public Health Association), and Ariane Krol (La Presse). The panel will be moderated by Professor Céline Le Bourdais (Sociology, º«¹úÂãÎè).

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the School of Social Work (º«¹úÂãÎè) and our other co-sponsors for this Montréal-wide event: the Institute for Health and Social Policy (º«¹úÂãÎè) and the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (º«¹úÂãÎè), as well as the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO), le Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ), the Dean of Arts Development Fund (º«¹úÂãÎè), the Department of Political Science (º«¹úÂãÎè), the Department of Sociology (º«¹úÂãÎè), la Laboratoire d’études de la population (le Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique), the º«¹úÂãÎè Institute for the Study of Canada, the Research Group on Human Capital (School of Management, Université du Québec à Montréal), and the Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS).

We hope to see you there!

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