Editor's Note: This post was originally written for July of 2021, however got caught up in draft status. As a result, exactly two years later, here is the original post:
Remember how I missed Wimbledon's Saturday matches?
It's all because on Friday July 10th I went to a house party. Well, apartment party anyways, it was in an apartment building (condo complex I believe), which is actually kind of important.
Anyways, July 10th is definitely after May 11th. Yes yes, I know, this is the sort of hard-hitting analysis you can't get anywhere else, but the census was due on May 11th.
Those who do not fill out the census may expect a visit to their door by one of the 31,000 census 2021 enumerators hired this year to conduct person-to-person visits to those who didn’t file by early June in communities across Quinte and beyond.
31,000 enumerators, eh? That sounds like quite a lot. Which seems odd. After all, according to the (always lying, as leftists always lie always) Liberals, the 2016 census saw a 97% compliance in Alberta. Why would there need to be an enumerator for every 1100 people? That's 97% by household mind you, so if we assume 2 people per household that's only 550 houses: 3% of that is 16.5, which means each enumerator presumably only has to harass 17 addresses.
Well, this house party was at an apartment building. And yet, on the single floor we walked down to get to the apartment in question, we saw no less than five notices for failure to complete the census, and I think it was around 15-20 units we passed.
Now I'm sure apartments are of lower percentage compliance than houses, what with unoccupied units and the like. However, still, even if noncompliance was triple the national average we're still looking at some 8% of residences that refused to fill out their census form.
That's a lot higher than the Liberals like to claim. So I guess the lesson for the 2026 census is clear: you can lie to them, as I've often suggested.
Or you can just refuse, tell them to piss off, and you'll just be yet another resident who fails to fill out his census form. One refusenik is a tragedy, if you start making up 5/15ths of the population you become...a statistic.
