I don't want the government seeing my box

With regard to the whole Census debate... I have been listening to both sides of the issue for the last week or so before coming to a conclusion.  What I have concluded is this: I really don't want the government knowing more than what is crucial about me.  Yes, I would fill out the short form, and I have to agree with the government's decision to make the long form voluntary.

I'm somehow not surprised that the bureaucracy has decided to blow this into politicians against the bureaucrats, and it's interesting that the Globe suggests that Mr. Sheikh knew about this move months ago, but within the last 3 weeks decided to quit?

I don't know about you but I'm a big believer in smaller government.  Because of this, I don't support the long form census.  I don't believe that government knows what's best for its citizens. 

As F.A. Hayek said in The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, "Civilization might spread, but is not likely to advance much further, under a government that takes control over the direction of daily affairs from its citizens," (p.32) and also, "Nothing is more misleading, then, than the conventional formulae of historians who represent the achievement of a powerful state as the culmination of cultural evolution: it is often marked its end" (p.33).

Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America wrote regarding his prediction of a "new kind of servitude":

The will of man is not shattered but softened, bent and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.  Such power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrial animals, of which government is the shepherd.

Census? Or is it just socialist planning?

New member of the family

This is the newest edition to our family here in Ottawa, my daughter Lauren.  She was born on March 20, 2010 and is the reason for my absence in blogging.  I can say without hesitation that she is conservative. When I was pregnant with her, she preferred to be on the right side of my belly!  She's almost 5 months old now and is currently most interested in sticking anything she can get her hands on into her mouth... not much different than McGuinty's Liberals, only they like sticking whatever tax dollars they can grab into their pockets...