Those who have yet to fill out the mandatory census questionnaire yet can expect an in-person visit or a phone call from a Statistics Canada employee soon.
According to a Statistics Canada press release put out on Tuesday, “census enumerators will begin contacting households from which a completed questionnaire has not yet been received. In addition to phone follow-ups, they will also start going door to door in communities across Canada.”
The press release highlights that this is “intended to remind residents to complete the census and to offer assistance,” also adding that Statistics Canada has hired thousands of census enumerators to help collect the information.
“Enumerators can help respondents complete the questionnaire in person if they have not yet done so or are unable to complete it on their own.”
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The press release also states that millions of Canadians have already responded online, either via online, by phone or on paper. The follow-ups to secure responses for the 2026 Census of Population are set to begin this month.
Canadians have been encouraged to fill out the questionnaire by May 12, with hefty fines of between $500 and $1,000 on the table for those who refuse to answer the questionnaire altogether.
A spokesperson for Statistics Canada has previously stated to Global News that the May 12 date was to be understood as “a reference date rather than a deadline.”
How to verify census staff
For those worried about visiting staff being authorized by Statistics Canada, Canadians can contact the Census Help Line at 1-833-852-2026 to verify the identity of Statistics Canada workers who call or show up at their homes.
The website also says that census staff should have an official Statistics Canada identification card, with their name, employment number and photo.
Follow-up activities will also begin for the 2026 Census of Agriculture, with Statistics Canada employees communicating with respondents by phone and through email.
If respondents have questions or require assistance, they can call the Census of Agriculture Help Line at 1-855-859-6273. Respondents with a hearing or speech impairment can call the TTY number 1-833-652-0195.
Their system is majorly flawed.
Filled it out as soon as it arrived in the mail, now they are calling to ask where it is.
Ridiculous.
I didn’t get my census form at all .
Many of people I know had the same situation….
The government doesn’t need to track us. It doesn’t need this information. The government was supposed to work for us, we pay the politicians and put them where they are with their opulent luxury lifestyles. Any government that collected this much data on its citizens used it against them. These recent six years have shown me daily that this government weaponizes the media, police, military and corporations against us all.
Man, do your elboze hurt.
The amount of bitching and whining here is ridiculous. They did this before. They will continue to do this in the future. It’s how they get accurate measures of some things that are uncertain. You think that they don’t know how many guns you own? They are just matching with their records to ensure consistent information. You don’t think that they know the genders here? They have to ask to determine how many people identify outside the biological male and female category. Yes, some of the questions are weird as hell, but that’s the society we live in. We wanted all this freedom and now we got plenty of it. Now we have to track it properly.
Stop bitching about it because others chose to practice their freedom in different ways than you would accept. That’s what bothers you. You can’t handle other people doing things as they wish, but your belief system doesn’t accept or tolerate it. Too fawking bad.
Canada is a dictatorship, you must comply or else.
Failing to complete the questionnaire, neglecting to provide information, or knowingly giving false/misleading answers can result in a fine of up to $500 on summary conviction.
Refusing to grant access to records or other related offences can lead to a fine of up to $1,000.
Government employees that others wise would have nothing to do are probably upset they have to work for the inflated wages they to do nothing. Just more mismanagement of Canadian taxpayers money. Fine for not doing a communist government questionnaire.
The questions on this census are God Damn scary and none of anyone’s business – especially THIS government’s.
Want to know how many LEGAL GUNS i own, I will show yiu. Just walk up the 1 mile drive and pass the 2 dogs. We are expecting you.
So, not only does this government get to break us economically and socially, they will harrass us to do their bidding. Come ahead, come bang on my door. Phone calls and letters are easy to ignore or burn. Be stupid, come to my door.
Look if they can deduct we did or did not participate.. can call, email and show up at your door.. they already have more then enough tracing abilities that they di not need participation.
The census never asked one question about my employment status. This was their one opportunity to get real numbers on unemployment. Too bad they dont GAF
If you answer the census that you are a middle class Canadian with a job and own your home you and your neighbors will get no support from the Federal Government. So best to answer you are an unemployed handicapped multi-sexual immigrant. The Federal Government will shower you with money.
I would never sign up to be a census enumerator. With all the mentally unstable leftists around a person can be attacked just for knocking on a door.
I hope the gestap o comes knocking on the elbozos doors.
They were interested in how many rooms our house had, who lives here, our genders, if we speak French and our levels of education. The education questions were the oddest ones, because depending on what parts of the country one has lived, it changes the number of years that constitute being part of “secondary” school. I think this was the most useless part of the survey and that it may have confused people.
They never asked about affordability, post-graduation job hunting difficulties, the job market, employee stress and how overworked we are, or if there are wishful plans for “retirement”.
Announcing fine emphasis is going to these house callers up for conflict May it not get as serious as it can ( daily news stopped for me years ago). This needs an advocate voice for their safe workplace rights or are they volunteers or contractors to avoid? Just sasaying
For anyone thinks that the compulsive answers they are forced to give to the truly invasive questions that are on this census are going to be used for them instead of against them…please give your heads a shake.
That is precisely it’s purpose.
If they are completely anonymous how do they know?
Insecure liberals at it again, they need to know DEI is still alive and “well” in the country they ruined.
There’s no way I trust them with my data
I do not agree with this. Surveys is a waste of tax payers money. Information is confidential what we do, live by, is non of your business. Too charge us a fee for not completing these forms is extorsion.
If you were waiting for the form to be mailed, you obviously would not make May 12. They asked my current sexuality also. i just answered ‘Other’.
LOL
They don’t ask about cost of living or food only if I wear a dress!
When the communist Liberals want you to do something for free and hire friends to shred the forms best listen to your delusional dictatorship government.
Get bent.
They’ll freeze bank accts.
For some reason I was required to list my sexuality on my census. Not sure why that data is needed or what difference it makes, but I guess with liberal minority Olympics maybe I’m up for a discount or a free “Elbows up” tampon
I had someone banging on my door at 6AM! That is unacceptable, even 8am would be pushing it but to come around and wake everyone in the apartment complex up at 6am is ridiculous
Normally that would be harassment, but of course the government thinks they can do what they want and get away with it.