Let's expose your statements to some logical analysis. They certainly don't form the accepted norm: logical argument supported by facts and evidence leading to a rational conclusion.
[1]"The government uses uses the statistics on race and ethnicity to justify programs to supposedly redress their perceived wrongs of hiring etc."
"... government uses uses the statistics..." So you're stating that government should act without accurate statistical information? What do you suggest? They should consult horoscopes? The ideologically biased polls of political parties?
[2] "Years ago when I told a friend who is third generation Chinese, that he is a member of a visible minority, he laughed."
What in heaven's name does that have to do with the issue at hand? Irrelevant. Non sequitur. Does not bear on whether Stats Canada performs a valid function, and performs it well.
[3]"...supposedly redress..?" "...perceived wrongs?"
Meaning what? Meaning that if they're validated by statistics, they're only "supposed"? That the wrongs are only "perceived"? It seems more likely that if the statistics validate the claims then they are true. Maybe Conservatives are more interested in hiding the truth.
[4]"...I can't stand governments that reduce my freedom and cause bloated bureacracies."
-[4A]- You have not proved that Stats Canada has impaired your freedom in any way. You have not proved that Stats Canada has not IMPROVED your freedom by allowing government to make well-informed decisions. You have not established any evidence to contradict claims by business leaders and municipalities that they need and want the information provided by the long form to make better decisions.
-[4B]- By what standard is Stats Canada a "bloated bureaucracy"? Just because you say so? Is that supposed to make it true? Please give us the data proving Stats Canada is "bloated".
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Your whole post is argument, without proof. Without evidence or the structure of logic. It's no better than opinion, to which you are most certainly entitled. But let's not confuse it with rational thought.
This is the sort of crackpot ideological buffoonery we've come to expect from Canadian Palin groupies and Tea Party advocates who found it necessary to import their thinking, having none of their own to satisfy demand. Long on puffery and indignation, short on facts and logic.
Demand for return of the long census cuts right across Canadian demographics: it comes from the business community, provincial and municipal governments, right down to concerned citizens, in a clear and unmistakable majority.
That is a fact, and it is undeniable.
So tell your Chinese friend that you too, have become a minority. He'll laugh.
Jim |
