When the Liberal government launched its MyDemocracy.ca website last December, the online survey — part of an ultimately fruitless public consultation process on electoral reform — was ridiculed. It also raised concerns about privacy.
Why, observers wondered, did a survey asking people’s opinion about our “democratic values” — though not which voting system we should have — need to know a respondent’s postal code? Their occupation? Their household income?
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