What happened when Canada stopped counting its numbers

Al Jazeera
What happened when Canada stopped counting its numbers

In June 2010, the Canadian government unveiled a grand experiment in data collection. In the name of privacy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper ended the mandatory long-form census for the country and swapped it out with a voluntary survey. Five years later, there is a mass scramble to make sense of a rapidly changing country. Despite an explosion of corporate data mining in most nations, researchers know less and less about Canada.

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