Canadian Census Humour? Count Us In!

By Sniffles

What is it with right-wingers and the census? We cats don't understand what could possibly be so sinister about counting people. In America, the teabaggers' antipathy to the census is made even more hilarious by the fact that it's mandated by the very Constitution that they claim to love so madly and deeply.

In Canada — the country that conducted the first modern census in the western world — the right-wing minority Tory government has also, inexplicably, made counting its citizens suddenly controversial. About a month ago, citing a host of vague, stupid reasons, the Harperites announced that they were making Canada's mandatory long-form census voluntary in 2011. (What on earth good would a voluntary census do?) And they've run into a storm of protest as a result.

We cats are tired of people running government when they clearly don't believe in it. We saw how well that worked during eight years under Bush and Cheney.

But looking on the bright side, the Canadian census flap is a another excellent opportunity for humour, as our neighbors to the north spell it. We cats PURR at the creators of this amusing take on a Stephen Harper version of the long-form census. For a better look, read it here.