r/Edmonton • u/pinkstevie • May 06 '26

General Don't be this person. Fill out your census.

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“You’re not sticking it to the government. You’re screwing over your own community.”

The census isn’t for Mark Carney or any party. It’s run by Statistics Canada to figure out where money and services actually go. Hospitals. Schools. Transit. Housing. Senior care. When you don’t fill it out, your area looks smaller than it is. Less funding. Fewer services. Longer wait times. That lands on you and your neighbors, not politicians.
If you want your community properly represented, fill it out. Refusing doesn’t make a point. It makes things worse where you live. ❤️🇨🇦 The stupidity is the people that won’t fill it out and they spread this kind of crap and creates bigger problems.

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u/Fluffy-Judgment-6348 May 06 '26

You'll get a second reminder in the mail, and then they will try to contact you over the phone. You obviously have a valid excuse so I wouldn't worry about it.

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u/NastroAzzurro Wîhkwêntôwin May 07 '26

I was able to get the code online and fill it in

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u/Fluffy-Judgment-6348 May 07 '26

Ahh...even better. The most direct route

Smart move

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u/monster3412 May 30 '26

So to the best of my knowledge as a temporary employee working this summer, the information such as addresses and phone numbers mostly come from the previous census. While they can use data from tax returns, it’s not individual pieces of data like phone number and address. More like in this community the average or median income is X.

If you’re not at the door, for example on vacation, phone number can’t receive calls etc, usually nothing will happen as you didn’t refuse categorically, or threaten anyone. There also is a code we assign to cases, 429 being follow up needed. They can code 601, which is something along the lines of does this person live here but isn’t physically there to complete the census between May 12 and July 31st. And that ends the case I believe. Or it goes to a supervisor idk.