Governments use three types of policy analysis to make decisions
But there's evidence the Harper government has little use for policy analysis, aside perhaps for assessing how a decision might play with its political base.
The extensive opposition to the Harper government's decision to make the mandatory long form of the census voluntary became quickly linked "to wider misgivings about how the Harper government uses data and evidence—or refuses to—in shaping policy" (John Geddes, www.macleans.ca, Aug. ...
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