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Even God ordered a census
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Aug. 16, 2010
Numbers were going to be needed for Moses and his leaders to understand all that would be required to create community and the structures that would nurture and sustain it. Canadian church leaders have sunk their teeth into that truth and protested the Conservatives’ plan to end the mandatory long-form census. Protecting a harmonious society, care for the poor and vulnerable, and safeguarding religious liberty are at the heart of their complaints. Like Moses’s nemesis the Pharaoh, the federal government has turned a deaf ear.
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