Census and Conservatives

Conservative party: When pressed, as they were by all the other parties on how this could possibly be, Conservatives mentioned the word bathroom, something the census itself has never done, according to Globe and Mail. As toddlers have long known, and politicians recently discovered, saying the word bathroom in a portentous tone guarantees you immediate attention, but this move may not have panned out for the Conservative party. The claim at the time was that the census was a violation of Canadians' privacy. Deprived of the long-form census, Canadians instead took up their pencils to vote the Conservatives out, and our long-form census is back, and oh, Canada, our home and nerd-filled land, you outdid yourself. What with this in the news, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quantum-computing explainer last month, Canada may end up with a serious math-club immigration crisis on its hands. You could not have looked any geekier, Canada, you with your census-site-crashing passion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.