Ottawa unleashes ninny state with census melodrama

WHEN THE PARIS mob kicked off the French Revolution by storming the infamous Bastille prison, there was only one inmate left to liberate.

But that’s one more person than Canada has ever jailed for not doing a mandatory census.

An awkward fact for the Harper government’s census counter-revolution is that Canada has no prisoners of census conscience. Never has had any. You can bet it never will.

“So to anyone with a sense of proportion, the Tories’ heroic self-image of saving Canadians from oppression by making the "intrusive" long-form census voluntary just doesn’t square with reality.”