[Brent Swain]

The contract for this census was given to Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest arms manufacturer.Being a US company, it gives the CIA and the FBI full access to whatever info you give them. Privacy? Forget it.<br /> For this reason there is a call for a total boycott of this years census.<br /> Brent

[Roy_Whyte]

I assume everyone else has gotten theirs? What did you do with them?

[Milton]

I wrote "Delivery Refused" on the envelope and threw it in a canada post mailbox. This is just the start.

[Dr Caleb]

[QUOTE BY= Roy_Whyte] I assume everyone else has gotten theirs? What did you do with them?[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Well, everyone in my neighbourhood seems to have gotten theirs. I wonder if mine blew away in that big windstorm we had? Hmmmmmm. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/twisted.gif' alt='Twisted Evil'>

[Reverend Blair]

Mine caught on fire.

[Kevan Taylor]

I blame trolls

[rearguard]

[QUOTE BY= Brent Swain] The contract for this census was given to Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest arms manufacturer.Being a US company, it gives the CIA and the FBI full access to whatever info you give them. Privacy? Forget it.[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> StatsCan claims that only software, hardware, and printing went to private contractors. I assume that the software and/or hardware contract(s) went to Lougheed Martin. StatsCan further claims "At no point does any contractor collect, handle, or possess confidential census responses".<br /> <br /> However, they also claim the following:<br /> <br /> "The systems and networks used to collect and process confidential data are not connected to any external networks, and are physically isolated from the outside."<br /> <br /> The above claim is not true, since StatsCan has a website where the census questionnaire can be completed on-line, therefore by definition the on-line collection process is connected to an external network known as the internet. <br /> <br /> If the people at StatsCan are not telling the truth about their network connectivity, what else are they lying about?<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www22.statcan.ca/ccr07/ccr07_006_e.htm">Source: The 2006 Census and contractors: How is Statistics Canada protecting the confidentiality of census data?</a><br /> <br /> The primary issue for me, is not the hiring of US war profiteers, but the government's threats against me should I refuse to cooperate with a census that I personally disagree with. <br /> <br /> If the census collection process did not include threats of fines and forceible confinment for those who do not cooperate, then we'd never see StatsCan hiring a morally offensive company such as Lougheed Martin for anything.<br />