Voluntary Survey: Statistics Canada

New Ways Dept: "We will have to find alternate ways then to gather that information because city planning is based on having accurate information based on the citizens, the direction they are going, their ages and they are going to need that and we are going to collect it one way or another," said Mayor Larry O'Brien, according to CTV. "This relates to the question of whether a voluntary survey can become a substitute for a mandatory census," Munir A. Sheikh wrote in a statement posted on the Statistics Canada website. "It can not." Ottawa's mayor says without a mandatory long-form census, the city will need to find new ways to gather information it needs for city planning. The head of Statistics Canada resigned Wednesday over the federal government's plan to scrap the mandatory long-form census. As reported in the news.
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