If I could just add to that, the Canadian public doesn't think it's too intrusive. There have been several surveys recently—Ipsos and Angus Reid—where two-thirds of Canadians said they felt it was reasonable, and a reasonable intrusion. The majority of people think the federal government has made a mistake and they should reverse their decision. The public does not believe it is too intrusive.
We rely on information, such as the number of bedrooms or how you travel to work, to understand the patterns of behaviour in our city, so we can plan for housing adequacy, understand what affordable housing is, and whether we have overcrowding in certain neighbourhoods, based on the number of bedrooms in the housing in those neighbourhoods.
We need to plan for how people are going to get to and from work and what their travel patterns are. We rely on this information. It's important. I don't believe the public is opposed whatsoever to participating in the mandatory long-form census.