Canada's chief statistician has resigned in protest over what he says is the federal governments' failure to protect Statistics Canada's independence. Wayne Smith says the government's decision to create Shared Services Canada and centralize all information technology services across government has compromised Statistics Canada's ability to fulfil its mandate. "Statistics Canada is increasingly hobbled in the delivery of its programs through disruptive, ineffective, slow and unaffordable supply of physical informatics services by Shared Services Canada," he added. "Shared Services Canada and Statistics Canada continue to work together to provide Canadians with accurate, secure and reliable statistical data." In 2010, Munir Sheikh resigned as chief statistician of Statistics Canada over the cancellation of the mandatory long-form census and its replacement with a voluntary national household survey.

Source: CBC News September 16, 2016 17:42 UTC