Statistics Canada staff face lay-offs
Job losses are the result of government spending cuts which are likely to reduce the amount of information Statistics Canada is able to produce, according to the Globe and Mail.
Its output includes surveys that are used by academics, economists, marketers, urban planners and public policy researchers.
Michael Veall, president of the Canadian Economics Association, told the paper: “There is no doubt that the cuts can’t be absorbed without reducing the amount of information Statistics Canada produces.”

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