census of canada

The Western Standard, intending to satirize the supposed sobriety and untouchable Euclidean perfection of the controversial census long form, creates a parody site for the “Jedi Church of Canada”. The parody is only slightly weakened by the necessity to acknowledge, in the fine print, the existence of a genuine, apparently earnest, federally registered Order of the Jedi Inc.

Lorne Gunter has become almost (though not quite) the lone defender of the government’s otherwise cryptic attack on the random distribution of the census long form. I am not particularly interested in his ethical argument against the long form. There is a case to be made that it is unacceptably intrusive for a government to compile such data, but: