From the Globe and Mail - When it comes to basic data about its own citizens – from divorce rates to driving patterns to labour trends – Canada simply doesn’t have the answers. If information is power, this country has a big problem.

Some captions from the in-depth report:

• Statistics Canada has been collecting data on generations of Canadians since it began life as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics after the First World War. But those records, and public data generally, remain full of lapses, hesitations and holes. 
• Birth statistics are harder to obtain in Canada than in the United States.
• Researcher Arjumand Siddiqi says the complexity of obtaining data in Canada has deterred several of her colleagues from studying it.

Read more here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-in-the-dark-the-cost-of-canadas-data-deficit/