From the Globe and Mail:

Conducting a halfwitted census turned out to be more expensive. The 2011 voluntary household survey increased errors, reduced accuracy, chopped the response rate by 30 per cent – and cost an extra $22-million. Congratulations: The Harper government figured out how to spend more for less.

The vote set to ragtime.

CBC The Current‘s episode on a private member’s bill to restore the Long Form Census.