Why should you care about Stephen Harper’s census games?

The census guides critical health care decisions – like where hospitals and clinics are built. It helps your municipality deliver better child care and transit. In short, the mandatory census helps ensure you get the health care and services you need.

But that’s not stopping Harper from axing it – just to score some cheap political points. That's wrong.

Stephen Harper would rather win reckless political games than to do what’s right. I want you to help me send him a message by spreading the word on Twitter [3] right now.

Stephen Harper – enough census games. Stop putting my Health Care at risk.

Brad Lavigne
Campaign Director
Canada’s NDP

"Without this information, Canada is stripped of an important resource to improve the health and well-being of Canadians. It will affect Health Care.”
Dr. Paul Hebert, Canadian Medical Association Journal

“Municipalities use Census data, particularly long-form data, to target which resident groups and neighbourhoods require public services like immigrant settlement support, low-income housing, child care and transit.”
Federation of Canadian Municipalities, July 2010

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