Conservatives junking mandatory long-form census

The feds are blinding Canadians to truths they need to know about themselves.

OTTAWA—A whimsical old proverb is our new reality. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

By quietly junking the mandatory long-form census, Conservatives are blinding Canadians to truths they need to know about themselves.

Damaging to the rest of us, Stephen Harper gains another political advantage by keeping the country in the dark.

Yanking a familiar page from the U.S. Republican playbook,...