----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net> Subject: [CCC] results for the 'informed consent' question Greetings All. The issue a few years ago with the cable TV industry was that they had rearranged and added to their package offerings and charged everyone using cable an additional rate without asking if their customers wanted the added content. The result was a general uproar by the public for being charged for something they had not asked for. The term used, if I recall correctly, was 'negative billing'. As a point of interest, Chief Statistician Ivan P. Fellegi raised the issue of the cable companies, and the public's reaction to the negative billing, during Senate Committee hearings to support his argument against having the 'informed consent' question on Census being used as 'opt-in' rather than 'opt-out'. While it would be nice to think that MPs should get 'exercised' by what we feel is misleading information put out by Statistics Canada I think you will find that most are simply happy that the Census issue went away (so they thought) with the passage of Bill S-18. the most 'exercised' many will get will be walking from their office to the House of Commons. I will send to the list in a separate post a letter sent to the editor of The National Post yesterday. Have a great day! Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Westman" <herb.westman@sympatico.ca> To: "'Lindsay Patten'" <BLindsayPatten@netscape.net>; "'Canada Census Campaign'" <CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [CCC] Correction to previous message This is the equivalent of false advertising/marketing. Wasn't the cable TV industry severely chastised about this type of marketing in the Commons several years ago? MP's should get exercised about this one. -----Original Message----- From: canada-census-campaign-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:canada-census-campaign-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lindsay Patten Sent: March 14, 2007 10:13 AM To: Canada Census Campaign Subject: Re: [CCC] Correction to previous message The wording on the web site is very misleading: > The 2006 Census, for the first time, allowed Canadians the opportunity > of choosing to have their census information transferred to Library > and Archives Canada and made publicly available in 92 years, in other > words, in the year 2098. In fact it is just the opposite, for the first time they had the opportunity to choose to NOT have their census information transferred. <snip> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message