{"id":2723,"date":"2010-08-10T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2012-06-04T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:32:36","slug":"tony-clement-non-mandatory-with-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2723","title":{"rendered":"Tony Clement: Non-mandatory with the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Clement, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/clement-willing-to-testify-as-medical-journal-joins-census-fray\/article1641394\/\">July 16th<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u201cI asked [Statistics Canada] specifically, \u2018Are you confident you can do your job?\u2019 They said \u2018If you do these extra things: the extra advertising and the extra sample size, then yes, we can do our job.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Clement said the medical journal and other critics should trust Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel I\u2019ve relied on the experts I should rely on \u2013 which is Statistics Canada. If I can rely on their expertise, then these groups should as well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But here&#8217;s what the experts were saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/insidepolitics\/2010\/08\/census-document-dump-behind-the-scenes-of-a-most-unexpected-public-relations-crisis.html\">four months earlier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">On a voluntary Census we can get up to a 65-70% response rate, which is still not an acceptable outcome for a census (although it is for some social surveys of a recuring nature) and will require a substantial amount of additional funding.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Clement, on July 16th: \u201cI asked [Statistics Canada] specifically, \u2018Are you confident you can do your job?\u2019 They said \u2018If you do these extra things: the extra advertising and the extra sample size, then yes, we can do our job.\u2019 \u201d [&#8230;] Mr. Clement said the medical journal and other critics should trust Statistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[983],"tags":[1167,1175,1174],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-politics","tag-census","tag-statistics-canada","tag-tony-clement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}