Munir Sheikh
Frank talk: The politics and policy of pricing carbon
Is pricing carbon the future or the past?
The cost of scrapping the long-form census
What was lost and what was spent
Off message
A year and a half after the chief statistician resigned, Statistics Canada’s chief economic analyst resigns.
The Liberals’ not-so-catchy catch phrase: evidence-based policy
Didn’t somebody once say something about reason over passion?
The question of the weekend
Liberals are spending much of the day discussing the concept of “evidence-based policy”—this curious and revolutionary and courageous notion that the government’s actions and promises should acknowledge demonstrable reality. Munir Sheikh, the former chief statistician, addressed the convention this morning. Delegates have spent the rest of the day in sessions dedicated to discussing this novel approach in the context of various policy areas.
The end of the long-form census
Munir Sheikh reviews the demise of the long-form census, his resignation and the ramifications for Statistics Canada.
The scientific case for questionable accuracy
Stephen Gordon responds to the new Chief Statistician’s claim there’s “no scientific basis” for claiming the National Household Survey will be flawed.
‘Once again, sir, is your government TOTALLY crazy?’
The Canadian Press obtains census-related e-mails sent to the Prime Minister’s Office during the last week of July.
Twelve of a kind?
The Conservatives’ critics inside the government have a remarkably short shelf life
The paper trail
The Canadian Press has an early dispatch on the census documentation released to the industry committee today. Kady O’Malley posts a few bits of correspondence.
The Commons: Verifiable data are no match for riddles and notions
A committee hearing on the long-form census spells out the epitaph for this whole sorry affair
Let us now speak seriously about data collection
More later on this morning, but early reviews are in from the Canadian Press, Globe, Star, Postmedia, CBC and CTV.