OTTAWA - Some of the groups that have publicly opposed the federal government's decision to move from a mandatory long-form census to a voluntary survey in 2011:
Canadian Council on Social Development
United Way Toronto
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Canadian Marketing Association
Marketing Research and Intelligence Association
Manitoba Bureau of Statistics
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Association of Municipalities of Ontario
Canadian Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities
Societe franco-manitobaine
Association francophone des municipalites du Nouveau-Brunswick
Canadian Institute of Planners
Canadian Association for Business Economics
Canadian Association of University Teachers
Institute for Research on Public Policy
Quebec Community Groups Network
Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
New Brunswick Association of Social Workers
C.D. Howe Institute
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Statistical Society of Canada
Canadian Economics Association
Canadian Association of Public Data Users
Information and Communications Technology Council
Ancestry.ca
Environics Analytics
