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   Here's why:   
      
   The need for such efforts has taken on new urgency since 2014, says Li, when   
   some 1,500 websites were centralized into one, with more than 60 per cent of   
   content shed.   
      
   Now that reporting has switched from print to digital only, government   
   information can be altered or deleted without notice, she says.   
      
   (One example: In October 2012, the word "environment" disappeared entirely   
   from the section of the Transport Canada website discussing the Navigable   
   Waters Protection Act.)   
      
   Stories about government data and historical records being deleted,   
   burned--even tossed into Dumpsters--have become so common in recent years that   
   many Canadians may feel inured to them.   But such accounts are only the tip   
   of a rapidly melting iceberg.   
      
   A months-long Maclean's investigation, which includes interviews with dozens   
   of academics, scientists, statisticians, economists and librarians, has found   
   that the federal government's "austerity" program, which resulted in staff   
   cuts and library    
   closures (16 libraries since 2012)--as well as arbitrary changes to policy,   
   when it comes to data--has led to a systematic erosion of government records   
   far deeper than most realize, with the data and data-gathering capability we   
   do have severely    
   compromised as a result.   
      
   Statistics Canada no longer provides a clear snapshot of the country, says   
   John Stapleton, a Toronto-based social policy consultant.   "Our survey data   
   pixelates--it's a big blur.   And the small data, we don't know if it's right."   
      
   How many Canadians live in poverty now, compared to 2011?  We don't know;   
   changes in income-data collection has made it impossible to track.   Austerity   
   measures, ironically, have resulted in an inability to keep track of the   
   changes: StatsCan used to    
   provide detailed, comprehensive data on salaries and employment at all levels   
   of government; now we can't tell where, or how deep, the cuts have been.   
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   Harper couldn't 'adjust' or delete all the written documents that went against   
   his planned agenda.  So he converted that written data into a format where his   
   government COULD control and change the data.   
      
   What we have for a government right now is much, much more insidious and   
   dangerous than most Canadians realize.  This is nothing short of the   
   censorship and media control in North Korea or Libya or Nigeria.   
      
   Harper is trying to control every source of information that may possibly   
   interfere with his agenda.     
      
   You bet the people of Canada 'want change'.  We want the dictator and his   
   cabal gone October 19th.   
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   Vanishing Canada: Why we're all losers in Ottawa's war on data   
      
   Records deleted, burned, tossed in Dumpsters. A Maclean's investigation on the   
   crisis in government data   
      
   http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all   
   losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/   
      
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