Mr. Speaker, clearly the government's position has changed on this point over the last four years, because four years ago when Conservatives were dealing with the 2006-07 census, the member for Beauce was defending the position of the government and defending StatsCan's 2006 contract with Lockheed Martin. He was quoted as saying:
Statistics Canada has taken a number of important safeguards to protect the privacy and confidentiality of Census responses.
However, this time around, just recently, the member for Beauce wrote:
Fundamentally, my position is that whatever the presumed usefulness of these data, I don’t believe it justifies forcing people to answer intrusive questions about their lives, under threat from [a fine or jail time] if they don’t
The question is, why did the government change its position from 2006-07 to now?