Sorry for the lack of posts this week, blog was offline for a bit. (For geeks out there, I now have a company managing my blog for me and we we’re moving from a shared hosting service to a virtual private server – I should have less down time in the future – very excited). [...]
Entries from the “public policy” category
Census Update and other chuckles
And now, the international laughing stock phase of our debate…
And now it has just become depressing. The international media has picked up on the census debate and they’re just mocking it. There is this priceless quote in a New York Times article: “I wouldn’t call this political interference,” Professor Prewitt said. “I would call this government stupidity.” Yes, the beauty for all of America [...]
David Akin: Live by the poll, Die by the…
The other week David Akin penned a commentary piece about an Ipsos-Reid poll that showed Canadians were evenly split about the census issue. It was trotted forward as proof positive that this was a non-issue that the press was blowing out of proportion. Well, things have changed. A more recent Angus-Reid poll shows that the [...]
Urban Aboriginal Interview and survey
For those who haven’t caught it, there is a great piece/interview by Jeffrey Simpson of Mark Podlasly in the Globe and Mail about urban aboriginals, identity politics and economic opportunity. I encourage you to take a look – it’s a quick read. If, however, you find all of this deeply interesting… I strongly encourage you [...]
It was never about privacy…
So it is becoming increasingly clear that the census decision was never about concern over Canadians privacy, it was about dismantling the state’s capacity to engaged in reasoned, evidence-based public policy. It is also interesting to see the government trot out new faces to give the same old flawed defence. Flaherty is now running around [...]
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