Update – The Outcome of the Lockheed Martin Census Action
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Over 2000 emails have now been sent to Industry Minister Allan Rock through our email form and cc:d to others such as the Chief Statistician of Canada and the Prime Minister.
Vive le Canada.ca has received national media coverage in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and in several other papers and radio programs across the country. Since that coverage, somewhere around 50,000 people have visited Vive this month, and the Council of Canadians has started their own related action.
More importantly, the public outcry and your emails have prompted Chief Statistician of Canada Ivan Fellegi to send out a response to Canadians via email. Unfortunately, his response does not yet address the concerns Canadians have about their privacy and the ethics of using a military contractor to do our census–nor does it remedy the larger problem of the trade agreements that force us to allow U.S. companies to bid on contracts like this on equal footing with Canadian companies.
Nor have we heard from Industry Minister Allan Rock on this issue.
Rest assured that Vive le Canada.ca will continue to work to highlight this issue, and the email form that allows you to pass your comments along to the government will remain up and running until the final decision on the 2006 census contract is made (which should be sometime in 2004). If you haven't sent your email yet, please visit Lockheed Martin and the Canadian census. Vive will also work to organize a boycott should the consortium lead by Lockheed-Martin indeed get that contract.
Be sure to visit Vive le Canada.ca for more updates. Or sign up for our Take Action! mailing list to have the latest information delivered directly to your inbox.
Thanks again for your support. With your help, we are making a difference!
- Susan Thompson, Jesse van Herk, Bob Price, Tony Lucas, and Nick Hoang,
Vive le Canada
@ October 29, 2003