Sometimes I get the feeling that popular blog, Thought Mechanics, has more Canadian readers than Americans! Of course, this can be attributable to one of its bloggers, the famous musician Matthew Good. Matthew’s latest post is provoking some thoughts in my head, but not having received my census invitation yet, I don’t have a chance to apply some of the goofy, funny and ingenious ways to “minimally co-operate” with the mandatory 2006 Canadian census. More information and details can be found at CountMeOut.ca!

I believe that a census can be of use to the nation, but I can appreciate the sentiments of those who wish to protest in their own harmless way towards the outsourcing of the census data processing by US defense giant Lockheed Martin. If you received your census invitation, what would you do?