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This is actually an interesting follow up on my blog about Conservatives being Liberals in Fis-Con clothing. Today we learned that the government really did make the decision to scrap the Mandatory Long Form Census in a hurry. About a month before the ludicrous decision, this view is supported by almost every single public institution in Canada, the government dished out $1 million dollars in test runs, consultations and, believe it or not, PRIVACY CHECKS. How did hyperinflated privacy check “check out?” According to the Toronto Star, the privacy commissioner okayed it, proving once again that the government trusts nobodies advice, even those who work directly with the public service in the interests of privacy.

Of course the Industry Minister shrugs off this spending and even the results of the consultation saying that “We had a few other issues that were occupying my time before that, like the world economic meltdown.” Well guess what Minister, you didn’t even bother consulting anyone except the PMO. This “test” was done, and then one month later, you brought out your ideological guns to shoot down something we desperately need to get a sence of what is happening in our country. Your bloated rhetoric is just window dressing at best, and bold faced lies at worst. And as a result of your lies, a top buerocrat was forced to resign who up to this point was just doing his job. This government has no problem throwing money away for ideological purposes. They should have looked at these consultations and gone to Canadians with them, if the census was really an issue of privacy, which we all know it wasn’t. This was something floated down from upon high because the Prime Minister likly had some kind of personal grudge with the census. Maybe it didn’t pick  little Stevie for kick ball back in the day. Only this could explain Harpers pointless, senseless and idiotic scrapping of something so fundamentally important to us. Information, in an information age, is worth it’s weight in gold. We have steps in place to keep it private. But of course, don’t expect Conservatives to trust facts. Facts are just things, as Colbert has always said, that are used by Liberal elites. If that’s true, then whose running our country?