If by statistical or scientific analysis being done day in and day out--and we'll have a chance to speak to a pollster a little later on--a voluntary system, which seems to be the panacea offered by Conservatives who have suddenly discovered this is an issue...if 19% of Canadians aren't prepared to even fill that out, what does this say for the entire credibility and assumptions that we need? What does it say for our understanding of our country?
It seems to me that while we want to talk a great deal about knowing a bit about our country as it evolves, perhaps more rapidly than other nations, if you don't know where you're going, chances are, as Yogi Berra said, you're going to wind up somewhere else.
With 20% of people in Canada saying they're not going to comply if it's voluntary, how certain are you that it will be necessary even to have a Statistics Canada down the road?