Statistics Canada: Governor of the Bank of Canada

governor of the Bank of Canada: He refused to budge despite opposition in the civil service and his cabinet, and loud protests across the country by 350 academic, business and other groups as well as high-profile individuals, such as Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, and David Dodge, his predecessor. Harpers diktat led to the resignation of Munir Sheikh , head of Statistics Canada, the agency that conducts the census, according to The Star. Was it merely his libertarian instincts that government ought not to intrude in peoples lives even though it does in a million ways, from collecting our taxation information to personal background for security purposes and The latest national census is a stark reminder that Canada is ruled by one man Stephen Harper. It was he who in 2010 single-handedly nixed the compulsory census form and replaced it with a voluntary one thats less accurate. Whereas prime ministers in parliamentary democracies enjoy enormous power, they are expected to act as first among equals, not dictators. It is a mark of how secretive the prime minister is that two years after the fact we still do not know why he killed the mandatory long form census that used to be sent to a fifth of Canadian households. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.