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Bad policy, brilliant politics [census]

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Aug 05 2010
The sunk costs of the national survey are already there, making the long form a trivial additional cost and the information gathered is essential to voluntary, not-for-profit and neighborhood scale organizations which also makes good conservative sense — as in smaller is better… So why can’t we keep it? We can’t because these are all politically insignificant details for Harper. The populations of Canada’s old cities don’t vote for him and he’s not responsible for education or cities. They are both provincial responsibilities. Further, his core support is concerned about anything that smacks of government imposition…

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