Mr. Speaker, I will refer to a few of the statements that were made by the last couple of Conservative colleagues who said, “I would like to believe that this is the case”. Those words are not ones that inspire a lot of trust and confidence in what the government is doing. “I would like to believe that what I am doing is correct”. “I think that what I am doing is correct”.
We have heard evidence galore from every expert right across the country and from people who rely on the census who say that this is the wrong step, that even if we go in this direction we will skew the census for the next five years and we will end up with data that is not correct.
What we have is a situation where somebody who would like to believe or who thinks that this will work is running the ship on the census, and this is not correct.