Did You Complete the Census??
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Is it true that there is a penalty to not fill it out?
I heard an interview on 680 news yesterday in which the reporter stated that the fine for not completing the Census is up to three months in jail / $500 fine.
I've looked on Stats Canada's site and never saw mention of this...
Just curious
I heard an interview on 680 news yesterday in which the reporter stated that the fine for not completing the Census is up to three months in jail / $500 fine.
I've looked on Stats Canada's site and never saw mention of this...
Just curious
Lynn said:
For agricultural operators, yes:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/agcensus2006/faq.htm#fq8
For the rest of us, no.
Census
I'm sure that many years ago the census was a good way to measure the population trends, and allow the government to plan for the future growth of the country. In today's highly piliticised environment, however, you can only assume that governments of all stripes will mine this information in order to plow money into areas where they can achieve political pay-back.
If we assume that a good census provides government with the information to create programs where they are needed, what study did they do that indicated that Quebec advertising executives required further funding?
Whereas I once was happy to forward my census data when asked, I am now sceptical as to how this information will be used and to what ends they will use this data to send money to those who have influence (read political cronies etc.).
Just another product of too many years of political corruption leading to a cynical attitude among the great unwashed.
That's my two cents worth...
bigshot
I'm sure that many years ago the census was a good way to measure the population trends, and allow the government to plan for the future growth of the country. In today's highly piliticised environment, however, you can only assume that governments of all stripes will mine this information in order to plow money into areas where they can achieve political pay-back.
If we assume that a good census provides government with the information to create programs where they are needed, what study did they do that indicated that Quebec advertising executives required further funding?
Whereas I once was happy to forward my census data when asked, I am now sceptical as to how this information will be used and to what ends they will use this data to send money to those who have influence (read political cronies etc.).
Just another product of too many years of political corruption leading to a cynical attitude among the great unwashed.
That's my two cents worth...
bigshot
001 said:
they say they sent out 13 million,that must be close to every household? Wonder why everyone did not get one?
Census
Why? Well, for one thing, it requires your consent; and in this case your consent can only be acquired by your filling in the questionnaire. If you do not fill it in, then you have not given your consent. I do not believe that you can be penalized for not consenting to a process that requires your consent to penalize you.
Moreover, since these statistics will not be made public for 92 years or so, then any constitutional abirdgements of those in vogue in 2006 should not be of great concern to anyone who has not discovered the elixer of life.
So far as I can recall from my glance at this census, about the only matters of significance that it seems to be interested in are matters of housing, sexual cohabitation variences and ethnic and sexual orientations.
It is too bad that such intrusions into our private lives could not generate larger questions.
However, if you do fill it out, then you are subject to penalty should you fail to tell the truth. Mind you, it would be quite comical to make the case in 92 years from now.
From my brief and uninterested look at the forms I received, I am inclined to believe that there are no penalties whatsoever that could be visited on anyone who fails to fill out this rather benign census questionnaire.Lynn said:
Why? Well, for one thing, it requires your consent; and in this case your consent can only be acquired by your filling in the questionnaire. If you do not fill it in, then you have not given your consent. I do not believe that you can be penalized for not consenting to a process that requires your consent to penalize you.
Moreover, since these statistics will not be made public for 92 years or so, then any constitutional abirdgements of those in vogue in 2006 should not be of great concern to anyone who has not discovered the elixer of life.
So far as I can recall from my glance at this census, about the only matters of significance that it seems to be interested in are matters of housing, sexual cohabitation variences and ethnic and sexual orientations.
It is too bad that such intrusions into our private lives could not generate larger questions.
However, if you do fill it out, then you are subject to penalty should you fail to tell the truth. Mind you, it would be quite comical to make the case in 92 years from now.
DO NOT FILL YOUR CENSUS ONLINE.
http://census.vivelecanada.ca/
Interesting info about the census.
I filled mine out so that it could not be read by the scanning machines and must be manually entered. Also wrote in the comments that our tax dollars should go to Stats Can workers instead of Lockheed Martin which is one of the largest makers of weapons of mass destruction. Lockheed has a contract for the software that is used online.
I don't know how private our infor will be with our big brother to the south of uss spying in.
http://census.vivelecanada.ca/
Interesting info about the census.
I filled mine out so that it could not be read by the scanning machines and must be manually entered. Also wrote in the comments that our tax dollars should go to Stats Can workers instead of Lockheed Martin which is one of the largest makers of weapons of mass destruction. Lockheed has a contract for the software that is used online.
I don't know how private our infor will be with our big brother to the south of uss spying in.
XXL1977 said:
I also buy gas at Petro-can so had no problem filling this out online.
https://www50.statcan.ca/census2006/Census.htm
takes maybe 5 minutes and is painless,the hardest part was getting the access number as we did not get the census in the mail.
For those that havent done it yet, in case you didnt know, you can still do it. Bud did his last night. Guess he had the short 1, only a few basic questions.
goalie000 said:
That's right Goalie000 it only takes a few minutes and it is like voting. It is your chance to be counted plus this also enables your regional municipality to count you for when it comes time to decide if and where to build new Fire Departments, Police Stations, Public Transportation and things of that nature. The Fed Goverment use it to determine where it is best to spend money on road maintance and such as it counts you as using the roads, Natural Parks and such too. This little thing that people think means nothing means so much.
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