Lockheed Martin's involvement with the 2006 Canada Census brings two changes from the way the Census has been carried out in the past.

1.) The public is being encouraged to file census returns online

2.) Census returns on paper are being entered into the computer by optical scanning machinery, using Lockheed Martin designed software and hardware.

Both of these Lockheed Martin innovations result in huge job losses for StatsCan Canadian wage-earners, both in this census and even more devastatingly, in future ones. Online filing takes jobs from outside census workers (doorbell ringers) AND from inside workers (data entry clerks). Optical scanning of paper census returns takes jobs away from the inside census wage-earners. We have even had these concerns quietly expressed to us by census workers--both present and past.

That is why many of the minimum cooperation methods presented in CountMeOut.ca are designed to make the census returns unreadable by Lockheed Martin software and hardware, but readable by StatsCan Canadian wage-earner data entry folks, who are our friends, our family, members of our community and, of course, taxpayers.

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