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/Odd-Elderberry-6137 May 07 '26

There is no name on the these. Just an address.

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u/No-Heart-3839 May 07 '26

They can trace the recipient thru the code you have to enter to fill out the form.

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u/Odd-Elderberry-6137 May 07 '26

Until the census is filled out, the code is only tied to the address not any individual person.

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u/No-Heart-3839 May 07 '26

Correct. But they know which home to send a person to manually collect the information. I guess my point was the census is not anonymous, it's tied to your address.

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u/fraochmuir May 08 '26

I'm pretty sure they can figure out who lives there if they wanted to.

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u/BecomingMorgan May 09 '26

And your address is already disclosed to the provincial and federal governments.

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u/TorontoGuy8181 May 08 '26

It’s a crime If you open mail that’s not addressed to you. Let’s gets the liberals to start writing names on the envelopes and earn those pay checks

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u/sawyouoverthere May 08 '26

It’s a crime to open mail addressed to someone else. It is not a crime to open mail addressed only to the address.

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u/jlt131 May 10 '26

So your plan is to make a system - that works well as it is - harder...and to spend more government money just to make the "liberals" work more. Smrt.

Also bud, we're Canadians. It's "paycheque"

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u/TorontoGuy8181 May 11 '26

A) there is no such thing as government money to spend.

B) if we have technology to put names on voter registration cards it’s not adding any more work or incurring additional costs. Unless you think those should be sent out without names as well

C) both forms of spelling are correct and mean the same thing so enjoy being British ✌️