Suppressing research to dumb down Canadians

Eye-opening research stopped in its tracks: Goar

University of Toronto researcher David Hulchanski recounts how Ottawa destroyed his mapping device for urban poverty.

It took David Hulchanski five years to create the most sophisticated tool to track urban poverty ever devised. The work was painstaking. The result was startling and worrisome. 

It took Tony Clement five minutes — if that — to destroy Hulchanski’s mapping device.

“My research has been turned into a historical project,” the pioneering urban planner said disconsolately.
 

This is one of the first documented cases of the damage done by the Conservative government’s 2010 decision to scrap Canada’s mandatory, full-length census. 
 

In 2005, Hulchanski, a specialist in urban topography at the University of Toronto, was doing field work at St. Christopher House, a social agency in the city’s west end. He knew the population in that part of Toronto was shifting. What he did not know was how quickly poverty was encroaching on once-comfortable neighbourhoods.

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