Fight Poverty to Spur Recovery

Nonprofits Need the Mandatory Long-Form Census by Jane Hilderman

Many of the most immediate and vocal opposition to the recent decision made by the federal government to eliminate the mandatory long-form questionnaire in the Canadian census has come from the business community, which uses this data to forecast labour and marketing trends, for example.

However, the loss of the reliable and in-depth data that the long-form (in its mandatory form) provides will also significantly hurt the ...