The Canadian Bar Association has called upon federal Industry Minister Tony Clement to drop plans to scrap Canada's mandatory long-form census.
OTTAWA — The group representing Canada's lawyers says changes to the census will make it tougher for people who suffer serious personal injuries to get proper compensation.
In a letter to Industry Minister Tony Clement, the Canadian Bar Association calls for the return of the mandatory long-form census, saying lawyers and judges use the information to help determine how much injured clients should claim in court.
The association says the ditching of the mandatory form will especially hurt women, children, the disabled and others without a regular work history.
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
Update:
Strangely, the CTV link above has been edited, and no longer references the CBA position. The actual CBA press release is here.
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I do not think the voice of 20 million people ,would make Harper would change his mind.
ReplyDeleteI think it is much more than the census. perhaps cutting a great deal of
Social programs, so people won't know until later.
Cari,
ReplyDeleteYou gotta give the CPC governemtn credit, they don't often select their policy changes based on what's popular.
They are in a minority parliament and are open to their government falling during any money bill. It is a very simple matter to remove them.
I went to the Canadian Bar Association website and there was nothing there on the long form census.
ReplyDeletePlease show me a link to the CBA position on this issue.
Tomm - see the CBA letter at http://www.cba.org/cba/submissions/pdf/10-51-eng.pdf
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