It's census time in Canada again. I think they do this about every four or five years. I missed the last one, because I was living overseas. But I vaguely remember doing one circa 1996 or so. Give or take. I also remember questions like What is your religious denomination? and What is your gross household income? What is your sexual orientation? How do you classify your nationality?

These types of questions are conspicuously absent from this year's questionnaire. In fact, it isn't a questionnaire at all. You list your name and date of birth. What are your relationships to others living in your home? And that's it. There is actually no pertinent information requested. I have a feeling that the politically correct police have stripped it of anything useful, lest it offend people to have to answer questions about themselves.

I'm not going to bother filling out the form this year. It serves no purpose to my government to know my name, address, and date of birth, since they already have this information.