06 July 2008

Hang on a second...

This is Canada... we don't even jail gangbangers... but you're gonna fry people over this?
-- 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.
And guess what... not everybody gets charged.

Seems some "special" people get a pass on violating the law of the land.
Mr. Morrison called the response to the census a “resounding success,” especially on Canada's native reserves.

Still, residents of 22 reserves failed to complete the form, but Mr. Morrison blamed the number on rural access.

“You're not going to charge everybody on the reserve because you can't get access to it,” he said.
Funny how that works, huh?

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