Yes.
My concern is particularly with the government's ability, or the minister's ability subject to Governor in Council approval, to overrule the chief statistician on a methodological issue on how to take a survey with a census.
There is no national interest that should allow this to happen. The current drafting says that in the case of overriding national interest, the minister can do this, that, or the other, including overruling the chief statistician on a methodological issue.
It's quite appropriate, necessary, and fundamental for the minister to have authority over management and budgetary issues, but not at all over—