Jack Layton has responded to the ViveCanada.ca campaign against the contracting out of Census data collection to Lockheed Martin. The first and only leader of a federal Canadian political party to do so. I got his email response as did others who have sent in their complaints via the Count Me Out campaign website. And I got my census form in the mail yesterday.
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Pete, I think you fail to realize that the contract for the census was given to an American company which is subject to the US patriot act. So if the US government wants to get info on Canadians, all they have to do is go hit up Lockheed Martin.
Not only are they giving it to an American company who is subject to the patriot act, but they are also giving it to a major weapons manufacturer.
If the government wants census data that badly, they're going to have to do it through a company who can't be forced to cough up my personal info, and especially not through a company who makes weapons. That sort of thing may fly down in the US. But not here.
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