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Outsourcing our Census software to Lockheed Martin moves us further down the road of deep integration with the United States. Enough!
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The Census provides every Canadian a chance to show opposition to NAFTA. The key is for each citizen to offer only minimum cooperation with the Census
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Here is the plan in a nutshell:

Don't do the Census online, as StatsCanada encourages.
Offer only minimum cooperation with the Census. Be creative.
Make noise. Complain. Protest. Get others involved.

Statistics Canada has forfeited the trust of Canadians.
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You can send in your census return by airmail!

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OUR OWN COUNTMEOUT.ca SONG!!

Thanks to the Raging Grannies in Ottawa, we now have our official www.CountMeOut.ca song. To be sung to the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"

Take me out of the census
It looks scary to me
Where our data is ending up
Nobody really can guarantee

Cause it's Lockheed Martin behind it
Spyware is what they're about
So it's oh, no, don't fall in line
Just say COUNT ME OUT.

We believe in the census
It's okay in itself
But while Lockheed is running it
We are putting it back on the shelf

And when Lockheed Martin is banished
We will fill our forms out
Till then oh, no, we won't comply
We say COUNT ME OUT.

We are particularly ourtraged that Census public money is being spent on Lockheed Martin.
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Lockheed Martin-designed changes to the 2006 Census will bring huge job losses at StatsCan
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Statistics Canada argues that our privacy is assured because Lockheed Martin is "only" providing the census software and hardware. We disagree.
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12 Feb. 2007
CBC News Reports the 2006 Census is really screwed up. Overdue and over budget. Rife with internal turmoil.
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October 2006
CENSUS SECURITY BREACH!
So much for Statistics Canada's ironclad assurances of personal data security.
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16 June 2006
We are now in the post-census day period. This website will remain up for some time, to facilitate exchanges of info re minimum cooperation. See our after-census day main page.
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15 June 2006
We have reports that Census Reps are demanding to personally receive your census form.
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12 June 2006
Cats just love census forms, says a viewer. Really!
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16 May 2006
We have reports of persons calling the Census for separate or large-print forms being subjected to aggressive questioning.
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04 May 2006
StatsCan refused one viewer a large-print form, and insisted on completing the census on the phone. This is contrary to the StatsCan website.
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02 May 2006
We Have received the census forms. Here's a sample page completed to minimum cooperation specifications
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08 April 2006
We are still howling with laughter after receiving the Top Ten list from Devious D.
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02 April 2006
Statistics Canada plans to blow $13 MILLON of our money just in Census advertising and promotion!
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23 March 2006
A viewer advises that we may not be legally required to answer some Census questions
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15 March 2006
We have received a letter from a former census worker, telling us more about Canada Census operational procedures
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02 March 2006
An American says imagine the uproar if the US Census were ever contracted out to a Canadian company!
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Here is the plan in a nutshell:

Don't do the Census online, as StatsCanada encourages.

Offer only minimum cooperation with the Census. Be creative.

Make noise. Complain. Protest. Get others involved.