Mr. Speaker, to me, this debate is really about citizenship.
I will go back to a line that was actually attributed to President Kennedy but was in fact an idea that came from Greek philosophers, I am told. Perhaps it was from Pericles. The line reads, “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country”.
It seems that the Prime Minister cannot even fill out a form every 10 years for his country.
Someone raised the point about how some people may feel annoyed or uncomfortable when a census taker comes to their door asking them to fill out a form. That may be true, some people, without a doubt, will feel uncomfortable, but that information is used to decide where hospitals will be built. That is a greater common good. It is the responsibility of the citizen to look after the greater common good.
In that equation, would it not be worth imposing the annoyance to produce something that is for the greater common good?