We would agree with that. We think that sense of civic duty would definitely come forward were this to be made voluntary; and with it being made voluntary, people will take up that sense of duty and participate.
I want to talk about a couple of changes that were made, or that supposedly have been made. In the 1995 annual report, it says:
Among the report's highlights is resolution of the Office's
—this is your office, or Mr. Phillips' at the time—
longest and most complex investigation; 27 outstanding complaints against Statistics Canada's Census. To resolve the complaints, Statistics Canada has agreed to a number of important changes, including...eliminate questions about fertility and religion from the long form.
I guess at that point the census had triggered, as they called it, the “longest and most complex investigation” by your office.
Statistics Canada was forced to make those changes, but why didn't they?