Mandatory long-form issue a high-stakes game, with gasp-out-loud turns of plot

If the decision to axe the mandatory census long-form questionnaire goes forward as planned, this government will have pulled out the cornerstone of the structure of information that helps us all make good decisions.

TORONTO—There aren't many stories like this one. You have to go back half a century, to Diefenbaker and Coyne, to find a parallel. Then too, a Prime Minister who was viewed as overly controlling insisted on an unworkable policy, until the governor of the Bank of Canada had no choice but to...

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