Mr. Speaker, eliminating the mandatory long form census is perhaps not the worst thing the Conservatives have done—competition for that title is fierce—but it is certainly the stupidest. This move has been widely condemned.
I would like to quote Paul Jacobson, president of the Canadian Association for Business Economics:
...it has become all but impossible to draw intelligent—or even accurate—conclusions about...critical aspects of economic policy.
To clean up the mess it has made of our economy, will the government support the excellent bill introduced by the member for Kingston and the Islands?