Comment: I have no issue with a voluntary census.  I think it is absolutely disgusting and reeks of a totalitarian state that the government can throw someone in jail for simply saying "piss-off, I am not filling out your survey".

BTW, Statistics Canada has more and more become politicized thanks to the politically correct crowed.  Here are just two obvious examples.
1) Stats Can estimate the value of unpaid labour down in Canadian households, but the questions are highly biased towards traditional women's work.  There are no questions on such topics as who does major repairs, such as finishing a basement, putting in new windows and who undertakes automobile maintenance.    Nor is there specific questions as to yard work but lots on house work..
2)  On the same theme, Stats Can measures the value of unpaid women's work of stay-at-home parents (a very dodgy measure at that), but not the value women receive by enjoying the benefits of their spouse's income.  
Like I said, highly political.