This just in! Senior federal Conservative cabinet minister was member of Bloc Quebecois for seven-plus years!

Well, it's not April 1, and it's in the Globe and Mail just now, so presumably the fact Prime Minister Stephen Harper's transport minister, Denis Lebel, was a member of the theoretically separatist Bloc Quebecois for more than seven years during the 1990s means the federal Conservatives are either breathtaking hypocrites or they’re incompetent buffoons who didn't do their due diligence.

C'mon, people! The complaints provided the excuse.

Scrapping the mandatory long-form census questionnaire never had anything to do with Canadians' wishes, fears or concerns.

If that wasn't clear before, it should be obvious now that the Toronto Star has revealed Prime Minister Stephen Harper's so-called Conservative government made the decision to scrap the long-form census on the basis of fewer than 100 complaints from Canadians.

"[The Unites States], and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world." - Stephen Harper, 1997