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Largs
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 5:58 am Post subject: Man, woman face jail |
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I guess they are standing up for what they believe is right, but it seems to me a silly reason to go to jail for.
TORONTO -- At least two people who defiantly refused to complete the 2006 Canadian census in protest of a software contract awarded to an arms manufacturer say they are willing to go to prison over the issue.
Todd Stelmach and Sandra Findley have never met, but are linked both by their cause and subsequent legal fight.
The two refused to hand in their 2006 census forms because Lockheed Martin won the contract to upgrade Statistics Canada's software.
The billion-dollar American arms dealer supplies weapons to armies around the world, including for the war in Iraq.
Findley, 59, said she first heard about Lockheed Martin's potential bid for the software contract in 2003 and immediately got in touch with Statistics Canada to voice her displeasure.
"(Lockheed Martin) makes billions of dollars through the business of killing people, and destroying the environment in the process of killing people," Findley said from her home in Saskatoon.
"So there's no way that I'm going to see my tax dollars go to help enrich them."
Stelmach's decision to protest the company's involvement in gathering Canadian data was quite different.
The 32-year-old Kingston, Ont., resident actually filled out his form before he and his wife heard about a census opposition group called Count Me Out.
"We discovered Lockheed Martin was outsourced by (Statistics Canada) to upgrade their software and do a lot of the processing of the 2006 census," said Stelmach.
"This just shocked me and at first I thought it was a bit of a hoax."
Failing to complete the national census is a federal offence. Findley and Stelmach both face a maximum penalty of three months in jail and a $500 fine.
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Phillippe
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I will say that there are a few things about Statistics Canada that really piss me off, too; but I'd never go to jail for it. For instance, you have to pay to see certain demographic charts, and information. This is especially true for those who are outside of the world of academia. It should be made 100% publically available, not just to those who have enough of a need to pay. It's one of the reasons why Canadian students read a number of articles on US demography versus Canadian.
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