The federal Liberals are moving on their promise to build a political firewall around Statistics Canada, but the fine print of the proposed legislative changes would maintain the government’s power to tell the agency how to do its job.

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http://www.citynews.ca/2016/12/08/proposed-changes-to-statcan-designed-to-end-political-interference-bains/

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