Kathryn Wilkins from Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics participated on the call and contributed the following letter submitted to the Government regarding the Cancellationof the long form census.  The CCSD has carried forward a Federal Court challenge that is still pending decision on this point.  The Datalibre blog has also kept a list of the many other organizations that came spoke out on this issue at Census Watch.

Access to public data is an issue for open governement and being able to track demographics is a method to keep government accountable to its charter responsibilities but these data are also important in public health.  Kathryn's letter is available here.