this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
48 points (98.0% liked)

Canada

10083 readers
564 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

100% agree, which is a shame because having real numbers for the proportion of the population that don't fit into what the bigots think is normal might help to convince some of them that they're not so normal. (I'm not saying this very well, but I think you get what I mean.)

[–] null_dot 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yeah.

I'm not really confident that this is the best way to produce real numbers.

How many people would list their orientation as hetero because they don't want other people in their household to know, or because they don't want to be in a database as we have discussed.

There must be other ways to determine some numbers which are accurate enough for government purposes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As a hetero, I will NOT be answering that question on the census. This is information they just do not need, having a nice local badly secured repository of sensitive info. Didn't OSAP get hacked and a thumb drive walk out of a secured area? Our govt will not use it properly, will not secure it properly, I am sure

[–] null_dot 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Last time we had a census in Australia you could either do it online or on paper. I assume you couldn't just decline to answer individual questions.

It was the first time the required you to identify yourself. I didn't complete one as a kind of conscientious objector. They never followed up with me but the penalties are significant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

$500 bucks to not answer the census, couldn't find if we just refuse to answer 1 question. Small price to pay to object to this unnecessary collection of data

Edit: When they come-a-knockin I will check back and let you know what if any consequences

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)