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I'll continue to be a good Canadian and do my best to give my infatuation to keep fedenl transfer funds mming to my pmvlnce fm my hospital. to fix my roads and plan for enough homing for my children and my husband and "myself when we're old and right. we are almady mohwclfw pride myself in being a good Canadian and. in fact. some family members tease me and call me a “royal (Lana- diam"~ so I guess it's fitting Statistics Canada's Big Brother census com puter would determine 1 should fill out the longer version of the 2011 census. It's affectionately â€"-â€" or Iy -» called the National Housing Survey. not to be confused with the former name of the longâ€"form cen‘ sus abolished by the Harper govern. ment to much gushing of teeth by national organizations and precipi- tating the WWW] of the head of Statistics Canada I attended what, I thought was an all-candidates meeting April 28 at the ParkviewVillage auditorium. advertised as an opportunity for the public’to meet the candidates, to hear their platforms and discuss issues. When I refused to five my name mdlor pmofof my iden- tity l. was harassed and repeat- edlyasked whylwould nmgive my name. Election event too (htistian, intrusive l was not aware this meeting was by invitation and requircd prwious signâ€"up and tickets» As my husband and I amend the venue. We were welcomed by a’ nice young man who thanked us for com. ing and requested our names. This country does not yet have a policy of identification papers mquiled on demand andlwasofmeopmionthis Rf: Candidates talk I came. April 30. It's also possible that because LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Longer census survey not too tough You am mud letters. columns and stories from The buncon wrtrvgioncom I also noticed that no ques- tions went to be alkrwed with- out previous vetting by the "hosts". ’ The Stouffville timing in fact was not a public forum. It was hosted by the Sioufiville Ministerial Asstw‘mtion. h was dedicated to Christian prin- ciples and was run more as a mvival meeting, commencing with a Christian prayer, them excluding other religions ,and atheists from being welcome at this meeting, . - l persohailly found this cxtrcmetv‘otfensivc. ' . All of the questions (ha! were to be put to the candidates were prefaced with issues relaun- to the community churches and not to the public as a whole. was a public forum for the vot- ers of this riding. After mmpleling the easy In quesâ€" tions online last weekend and just when I was thinking this was really easy afier all. suddenly my computer screen pulled up another section and told me. I was “elected” or “selected” (can't recall the actual term) to fill out the much hmch questhnnaim. have completed the longâ€"form census under previous governments. the com- puters in (Mawa knew I’d be a willing im'f ' ' Frequent buttons Io click inviting me to “save and compleue Islet” were mv first him this section would be far JOANNE F. BREITHAUPT ' m PRAILISY IN Marnev Beck The": were seven) sections when: I. as the survey respondent. was told. or stmngiy invited. to consult With 0th?! family members and invite their opin~ Ions. When I asked my husband â€"â€" pffidal~ ly in the “senior citizen" age bracket” â€"~ if he would allow the ne'sults of this oonfi~ demial survey tube mleased in 92 years. it pmvoked some son ofsnon combined with Iayghter as he agreed that. yes. in the year 2103. he wouldn'l mind if the world knew how many bedrooms our home had or his religion. Wc had to dig up electrical and gas bills or estimate those for the put year. as well its water and sewer bilk -â€"- pmâ€" Luckily. I'd made a mp of tea and was pnepamd to take the time to do my duly. I again consulted him when it came tu education. as he had completed some years 0f university south of the so we had to figure out how to explain that in the txmtâ€"semndary education status semen. lo‘ngerand mommmplexthanthefim easysccfion. ‘ (mawa wanted to know exactly how many hours of work I. my husband and son. l9. did last week. SWZTribune 6290 M St m.o~.m1m mem PUBLISHER Ian Proudfooc Apparently. 4.5 million good Liana diam will be asked to do the longer survey. so get ready: it could be you. ng'amwmtm can ty depressing statistics when you add them up for an entire war. 7 The onlinc survey even urged me to I had included all family mom .and flared that if! mere 'negiect t someone us” this home” lain wh that might be and why. probably because it knew that them was a daughter pm'iously counted in the ccnsm. So again. I figured out how to use the blanks and suggestions provided to tell the survey technicians my daughter no longer lived at home: "student â€"- other" is the category 1 MM? I clicked (didn't think Ottawa would want to knnw aho‘x now living with her boyfriend -â€" won- der if his mom added my daughter as an “extra familv member”?) It did take about a half hour or 40 minutes to complete. 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