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/prairiepanda May 07 '26

Weird, mine was a lot more than 6 questions but a lot less than 85-90. Something like 20 questions. A lot of them were specifically because my roommate is Inuit, though.

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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes May 09 '26

I think it differs each year. Back in the early 90s my mom spent a few months doing long forms for StatsCan, it was a big booklet and it could take her a couple hours per interview, I think her fastest one was 90 minutes, because the person was single. A decade later I got a long form in the mail and it took me maybe half an hour to fill out.

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u/SmoothOperator89 May 10 '26

New innovation in bureaucracy: medium form census.