The National Statistics Council is a Canadian

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...

agency which advises the

Chief Statistician of Canada The chief statistician of Canada (french: statisticien en chef du Canada) is the senior Civil service, public servant responsible for Statistics Canada (StatCan), an agency of the Government of Canada. The office is equivalent to that of a Deputy m ...

on Statistics Canada’s activities, primarily on program priorities. The NSC drew media attention as a result of its objection to the removal of the long-form census deployed in the 2011 Census.

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