Sunday 3 July 2011

(9) Civil disobedience and the 2011 census

I can agree with Catherine Porter on so many levels. In addition to using Canadian taxpayers’ money to support the world’s largest weapons manufacturer, paying $80 million for optical recognition software (that has been around for over a decade) is a huge rip-off.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/990526--civil-disobedience-and-the-2011-census


Porter: Why the 2011 census calls for some civil disobedience
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When Lynn Marie Murphy opened her census form, she thought of bombs and fighter planes. She knew something I didn’t know — that the federal government has paid Lockheed Martin about $81 million for “optic recognition” software to process the mailed-in census forms.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/988561--porter-2011-census-calls-for-some-civil-disobedience

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