There are points in these documents worth emphasizing:
“Statistics Canada will use the information for statistical purposes only…. Under no circumstances will the personal information obtained from financial institutions be used to perform credit, ….”
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“Statistics Canada will use the information for statistical purposes only…. Under no circumstances will the personal information obtained from financial institutions be used to perform credit, ….”
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“Under no circumstances… used to perform credit, expenditure or income check on individual Canadians.”
“Statistics Canada will only make anonymized, aggregated statistical information on Canadian households publicly available an as such…”
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“Statistics Canada will only make anonymized, aggregated statistical information on Canadian households publicly available an as such…”
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“…and as such, individuals will not be identifiable in any product disseminated to the public.”
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To summarize: no one is trying to snoop into your private business. Just trying to modernize how we measure what’s going on around us. We want reliable numbers. That’s all.
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