Liberal MP says Conservatives sliding toward “tyranny”

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Liberal MP says census controversy shows Conservatives sliding toward “tyranny”
By Matthew Burrows

A Liberal MP from Vancouver has said the Conservative government’s move to scrap the mandatory long-form census and make it voluntary is “definitely part of a pattern that is very bad for democracy and bad for Canada”.

“This is also part of the pattern of trying to control the independent agencies and offices of Parliament that are the oversight to government and are a very important part of our democracy,” Joyce Murray, the MP for Vancouver Quadra, told the Straight by phone today (July 22).

“Having those neutral agencies and voices to be able to speak to Canadians is a very important governance. And that is what separates a government from a tyranny.”

http://www.straight.com/article-335697/vancouver/liberal-mp-says-census-controversy-shows-conservatives-sliding-toward-tyranny