Lopwer and Upper Canada

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Canada’s premiers plan to come up with their own ideas for improving the mandatory long-form census without scrapping it altogether at their annual meeting next week.

But it is not at all clear that the country’s 13 provincial and territorial leaders will be able to reach a consensus, given that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is deeply skeptical that there is room for a compromise.

“I don’t know what compromise means. I’d have to see,” Mr. McGuinty told reporters on Wednesday. “There are modest compromises, then there are reasonable compromises and there are some times when a compromise is unacceptable.”

The Harper government is under pressure from Canada’s two largest provinces to reverse its controversial plans to replace the mandatory census with a voluntary survey.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/premiers-seek-difficult-compromise-on-census/article1655218/