> The paper also challenges the reliability of official data from Statscan, which has been hit with deep budget and staff cuts in recent years. It said the agency is beset by “data problems.”

Big understatement. The current government (incidentally, elected to a "majority government" by 37.65% of the popular vote... which is 23.1% of eligible voters) has completely crippled Statscan by killing the mandatory long-form census... the thing that gave their statistics a basis in fact (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/statistics-cana...).