No, I'm not going to say that. What I'm going to say, on behalf of statisticians in Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and every other place where a census is essentially mandatory, is that I would like the government to go forward with the compromise position that the National Statistics Council has outlined. It's very much in parallel to what the Statistical Society has provided you with today. It provides for reinstatement of the 2011 census and, simultaneously, a study of the impact of a voluntary survey for any bias that might--and I think very likely will--creep into the responses on certain questions.
On July 27th, 2010. See this statement in context.