Municipal Property Assessment: Property Assessment Corporation

Municipal Property Assessment Corporation Dept: Details about one’s property – particularly the number of bedrooms in one’s house – have been cited by Mr. Clement as the type of personal data the government shouldn’t ask for on a mandatory census. “My position is we are standing on the side of those Canadians who have an objection to divulging very personal information to an arm of government and are subsequently threatened with jail time when they do not do so,” Mr. Clement has said. But some of this type of information can be obtained by anyone with the time to look for it. The census isn’t the source of the above information about Mr. Clement’s houses his other home is in Port Sydney . The Globe’s research department found it using records from land registry offices and the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation, according to Globe And Mail. “One of the real emergent things that we can do, as social animals, is map ourselves,” said Armine Yalnizyan , senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “You can’t do it without census data,” which, she adds, has the benefit of being anonymous and it has four bedrooms, two full bathrooms and two half-bathrooms. Much of the data gathered by the long-form census is already in the government’s hands, and some of it is publicly available. The problem, census proponents say, is that there’s no way to connect these various pieces of information into a complete picture and find the correlation between, say, education level and ownership of four-bedroom houses. As reported in the news.
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