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Long-form census? Nah, we’ll ask Paul the octopus

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Jul. 16, 2010
… one wonders what other laws we’ll now discard because we cannot ensure 100 per cent voluntary compliance… One doesn’t want to use “state coercion,” says Mr. Clement, speaking for our tough-on-crime government. But the census system relies on everyone being willing to make the occasional small, anonymous sacrifice. Statistically each Canadian will be asked to fill out the form only once every 25 years. Surely if there’s a place for a little “coercion,” in the direct service of peace, order and good government, it’s there?

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Offside calls on Jason Kenney [same-sex marriage]

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Mar. 13, 2010
For Canada’s new Citizenship and Immigration study guide to stay at its current length and include the words “Same-sex marriage was legalized nationally in 2005” – words cut, as we learned last week… we would’ve had to lose the words “Canadian children have collected hockey cards for generations.”
…Imagine you were raised somewhere you’d be discriminated against or beaten senseless or risk untimely death because of your hockey-card collection – or that you yourself, while uninterested in collecting cards, beat other people in your homeland with impunity the second you discovered that they owned a deck.

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