The long form census "controversy" is nothing more than laziness, inefficiency and free-riding trying to murk the waters of the debate. Why, pray say, should anyone feel threatened with jail time or fines for not telling the Government what name one calls God by?
There is no reason for the federal government to extract that information from citizens under duress, particularly when we give both federal and local entities so much information they could already clone our lives.
Revenue Canada knows exactly how many people live in your household, how much you earn, where your kids study, if you use public transport, if you live in a nice house, et cetera. The provincial automobile authorities could report you to Jeremy Clarkson for driving a Prius, hogging the road with a trailer or not going fast in a supercar.
The truth is, all the information we give to local and federal bureaucrats is probably stored in some filing system, for no other department to peruse. This makes for tons of duplicate queries, and the inefficiency of the service machine is passed on, as a time cost, to the hapless taxpayer.
If you want to know, you will find a way of obtaining the knowledge. Many local organisations keep their own records much better than the central government, and Montreal is a good example. Economic and population statistics should be fished from Revenue Canada because no-one escapes them. Other data that is necessary for smooth local governance and the provision of local services can be just as easily collected by the relevant local entity. Be it a hospital, a clinic, a school, or whatever.
What's required is a standardised way of storing the data, i.e. homogenising the record-keeping software across the country. Why hasn't this been done? The answer escapes me. Just like the reason why the government hasn't placed more emphasis on the efficiency argument rather than just the abolition of census compulsion.
While we talk about redundant data, how about the Long Gun Registry? It's rubbish, and the police's excuses for keeping it are just as rubbish.
No sane person would sign their name at the scene of a violent crime, and finding a stolen registered gun at a scene would simply lead the investigators back to the original owner. Well, big deal. Furthermore, the registry will never tell the officers whether or not there can CERTAINLY be no gun in the house they're called to. Wasn't caution an essential part of the job, rather than trusting a screen?
The registry, as it is now, duplicates the records of firearm licenses kept by the RCMP. If a register of owners and guns is necessary, let the weapon be registered at purchase and associated to a license. The resulting database can then be queried at will by the RCMP. Problem solved and no need for a periodic tax on honest weapon owners, who are made to pay for the cost smugglers and gangsters impose on this country.
The current Government isn't just tinkering with silly provisions. It is on a drive to increase the efficiency of the way Canada deals with the data it is given. If only they spun this a little better.
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As I understand it, Revenue Canada has long been required to keep information on tax forms sequestered from other departments of the government for peronal privacy reasons. I have often wondered how often that policy (or law) has been broken.
You nailed it Luca. (real conservative)
Almost all of the major western countries have abandoned the Forced Census as intrusive and that the data obtained in not accurate. The data is being obtained from other already existing sources.
This is a Liberal/MSM campaign to discredit the CPC in advance of an election. Same story for the gun registry. The Liberals flat out refused to account for missing money in the Gun Registry and now will whip their members to tow the mark. May they be reduced to a rump.
Who in their right mind would use data from the Gun Registry when entering a residence. People that don't do it for a living, that who.
No cop in his or her right mind believe this stuff, nor should they.
It criminalizes the law abiding citizens of Canada as part of the "chattering class" Guns are Bad mantra. It makes me Pig Biting Mad.
The most asinine thing of all about the Liberal's Firearms Act, Bill C-68, is that people who are refused a possession or possession and acquisition licence, or people who have prohibition orders from the courts against them are no longer of interest to the firearms bureaucracy. It is assumed that refusing them a licence or issuing a prohibition order is sufficient to keep them from acquiring firearms. These people are not required to keep the police apprised of their whereabouts, neither is there any effort made to ensure they are in compliance with the refusal or prohibition order.
James Roszko shot and killed four RCMP constables in 2005, despite having a court ordered prohibition against owning firearms. He had no trouble at all arming himself while the federal firearms bureaucrats were too busy keeping track of peaceful, duly licensed hunters and sport shooters and the incomplete, error ridden database that is the long gun registry.
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