Acknowledgements

This report was drafted by Linda Howatson-Leo, co-manager of the 2016 Census Strategy Project, and Janet Hagey, both from the Census Management Office, in consultation with Michelle Costello and Susan Stobert, also from the Census Management Office, and Marie Anderson from Census Operations Division. It was prepared in the fall of 2011 and reflects the situation as of December 2011.

The authors were able to depend on sound advice from Julie Trépanier, co-manager of the project, Rosemary Bender, Louis Marc Ducharme, Connie Graziadei and Peter Morrison, assistant chief statisticians and members of the project's Steering Committee, as well as Jane Badets and Marc Hamel, directors general and members of the project's Advisory Committee. They thank all of them for their valuable comments.

Finally, the drafting of this report would not have been possible without the commitment of many Census Program data users. Statistics Canada therefore thanks its federal department partners, the provincial and territorial focal points, representatives from municipal organizations, national aboriginal organizations, organizations representing linguistic minorities, Canadians with disabilities or immigrants, as well as secondary data distributors, umbrella organizations or immediate end users from non-profit and commercial sectors.