The interference, then, by the government is well founded...the government itself. Listening to the minister's testimony, I'm surprised, sir, that you survived as long as you did.
Mr. Fellegi, there was a comment by the minister in the previous testimony in which he pointed out that the reasons for eliminating the long-form census—not all of them, but some of them—were because of people's perception of giving and contributing to information that might lead them to fear deportation, that people coming from “hideous regimes” might be averse to answering those kinds of detailed questions.
Mr. Fellegi, you come from a totalitarian regime. How well founded are those comments by the minister?