Census workers logged hundreds of cases of violence, harassment by public: documents
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada documents show workers who went door-to-door to collect data for the 2021 census logged hundreds of workplace injuries and at least 15 assaults by members of the public.
In one case, a census interviewer was assaulted by a resident using a "pellet gun," while another had a "gun pointed at her from another vehicle," the documents say. In at least three separate instances, people collecting data for Statistics Canada reported that they were sexually assaulted by members of the public.
The injury reports from staffers showed there were 137 cases of people's dogs being aggressive or biting them, along with 158 slips, trips or falls.
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