Census 2006

[Jamon Camisso]

Tim Writer wrote:
> "J. Schaap" <jschaap-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
>> Bruce Byfield has an article about 
>> "Canadian online census discriminates against FOSS"
>> in NewsForge
>> http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/05/04/233250.shtml
> 
> Perhaps this is an opportunity to raise awareness of these issues. We could
> organize a protest. On May 16 (Census day), instead of dutifully returning
> our Census forms we could gather outside a federal government office in
> Toronto (or offices across the country) and toss our census forms into a
> large blue box.
> 
> Given that it's an offence under the Statistics Act to refuse to take part in
> the Census (punishable by a $500 fine or up to 3 months imprisonment), I
> suggest this be a symbolic protest only. Throw out the envelopes only or fill
> in the Census on-line (using that other OS) and throw out the whole thing.
> 
> To get any publicity, we would probably have to organize at least a couple of
> hundred people. Anyone interested? Can we do this in time?

Don't see why not. People also might like to know that Lockheed Martin 
and IBM have contracts with Statistics Canada to supply hardware, and 
software.
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