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The Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities of Canada, a French language interest group, is using legal action to try and prevent the government from making changes to the long-form census. They claim that reliable data on the number of French speakers is needed to provide adequate French language programs.
I would be interested to know if this is the same organization that mobilized French speakers to lie on the 2006 census. Many bilingual French-Canadians were encouraged to claim on the 2006 census that they could only speak French. The idea was that this would boast the amount of French language programs, even in areas that it wasn’t needed.
How about that for reliable data?
The census should not be used as a tool to lobby the government for more money.
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I was thinking the exact same thing.
Bit unfair to point a finger at the Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities of Canada don't you think? After all, we're talking about one - and only one - "anonymous French-language e-mail". Indeed, there's no evidence that any organization was involved.
The Federation is well-respected and does very fine work. Nothing in their history suggests that it would be involved in an activity such as you describe.
Note the organization's correct name.
The impact of that "one e-mail" was enough that Stats Can posted a warning next that the statistic is unreliable. That suggests a large bank of e-mails that are specific to Francophones. And that suggests that there was some sort of organization behind it.
I am not accusing the Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities of Canada of being involved. I have no reason to think that it was that organization that was behind it. I merely point out that Francophone statistics has already been politicized.
And thanks for pointing out the typo.
And the Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities can't take YES for an answer?
‘Clement did tell the committee he was willing to compromise before the change comes into effect for the 2011 census,
saying he’s willing to include questions on official languages on the mandatory SHORT census that were about to be part of the new volunteer long-from survey.’
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