Tell the new Industry Minister and Prime Minister to Cancel the Lockheed Martin Census Deal!
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Fellow Canadians,
Last year, former Industry Minister Allan Rock awarded U.S. military contractor Lockheed Martin and its consortium of companies the contract to prepare a 2005 test run of the next Canadian census. Despite intense opposition from Canadians, Lockheed Martin is still a prime candidate to receive a contract to do the entire Canadian census in 2006.
Lockheed Martin is the largest weapons contractor in the world. The company manufactures ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction and is also a key contractor for U.S. President George W. Bush's “missile defence” program, aka Star Wars.
Now the Washington Times is reporting that 5 million records from the 1990 U.S. census were used by NASA as part of a study to test terrorist screening, without the knowledge of U.S. citizens and despite assurances from the U.S. census bureau that the data was safe. See “Study used census information for terror profile“, by Audrey Hudson, January 19, 2004, and “Inquiry sought into airline's data transfer to NASA“, by Audrey Hudson, January 21, 2004.
In light of the new information it's more important than ever that we tell our government that we do NOT want to pay a giant U.S. military contractor to gather information about Canadian citizens.
We also have a new Industry Minister and a new Prime Minister who both need to know that Canadians want the Canadian census to be handled by StatCan or at least a Canadian company.
Finally, it is still vital to tell our government that Canadians do NOT want to support U.S. military companies and programs such as the proposed “missile defence” which threaten both our sovereignty and security with our tax dollars–just as we did not support the war on Iraq.
Please join Vive le Canada in their renewed action to oppose using Lockheed Martin to conduct the 2006 Canadian census. Just click here.
@ January 29, 2004