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[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating dark blue and light blue. Foreground — a picture of Stephen Harper. Top text: “Long form census too invasive” Bottom text: “spy on you on the internet”]
I jacked this from Meme Generator. If it’s yours, tell us and we’ll give credit.

Because the Conservatives looking at your Facebook page somehow makes the long-form census less of an invasion of privacy?

1) This is referring not only to the Cons’ facebook creeping, but also to their support for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, one of the major criticisms of which is that it “would profoundly restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms… most notably the freedom of expression and communication privacy.”
2) How is the long-form census an invasion of privacy? It’s completely confidential. The purpose of the long-form census is to collect facts to help the government do its job. To quote from my co-blogger’s blogspot,
“This isn’t about privacy. It’s about information. It’s about the anti-intellectualism of neo-conservativism. It’s about crippling the opposition to Harper’s policies by making it more difficult to confront his ideology with facts. “The questions that have been cut have to do with disability, language, race, ethnicity, mobility, level of education, unpaid household labour and care-work, employment status, income, and home ownership. “Eliminating these questions harms equality-seeking groups, by lowering the quality of the data they need for advocacy, for determining where services are needed, and for tracking what kind of progress is being made. Harper has made no secret of the fact that he has a hate-on for such groups; one of his earliest actions in office was to scrap the Court Challenges Fund, which partially covered the costs of equality-based Charter challenges.”
The point here is that Harper is a hypocrite. He cut the long-form census because he claimed it was too invasive, but he supports other policies that are more invasive.

harpergov:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating dark blue and light blue. Foreground — a picture of Stephen Harper. Top text: “Long form census too invasive” Bottom text: “spy on you on the internet”]

I jacked this from Meme Generator. If it’s yours, tell us and we’ll give credit.

Because the Conservatives looking at your Facebook page somehow makes the long-form census less of an invasion of privacy?

1) This is referring not only to the Cons’ facebook creeping, but also to their support for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, one of the major criticisms of which is that it “would profoundly restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms… most notably the freedom of expression and communication privacy.”

2) How is the long-form census an invasion of privacy? It’s completely confidential. The purpose of the long-form census is to collect facts to help the government do its job. To quote from my co-blogger’s blogspot,

“This isn’t about privacy. It’s about information. It’s about the anti-intellectualism of neo-conservativism. It’s about crippling the opposition to Harper’s policies by making it more difficult to confront his ideology with facts.

“The questions that have been cut have to do with disability, language, race, ethnicity, mobility, level of education, unpaid household labour and care-work, employment status, income, and home ownership.

“Eliminating these questions harms equality-seeking groups, by lowering the quality of the data they need for advocacy, for determining where services are needed, and for tracking what kind of progress is being made. Harper has made no secret of the fact that he has a hate-on for such groups; one of his earliest actions in office was to scrap the Court Challenges Fund, which partially covered the costs of equality-based Charter challenges.”

The point here is that Harper is a hypocrite. He cut the long-form census because he claimed it was too invasive, but he supports other policies that are more invasive.