Activists will tomorrow voice their displeasure with the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, at a march being held in several locales across the country. Participants of the “People’s March Against Jason Kenney” will be demanding an end to deportations, a halt to the exploitation of temporary migrant workers and an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan, among other things. Organized by Vancouver rights collective No One Is Illegal, the main march will take place at noon in Burnaby’s Central Park. Rallies are also planned for Montreal, Halifax, Toronto and Winnipeg.

The RCMP said it has found nothing to warrant criminal charges against MP Helena Guergis, who was forced to resign from cabinet and axed from the Conservative caucus in April under a cloud of controversy. Allegations hurled at Guergis included reports she used her position to further the business interests of her husband, businessman and former Tory MP Rahim Jaffer. “To me, that speaks a tremendous amount,” said lawyer Howard Rubel of his client’s vindication. “They [the RCMP] didn’t feel there was anything that they needed to speak to her about or ask about.” This afternoon, the National Post reported that Guergis is now looking to meet with PM Harper face-to-face, to find out why he personally threw the woman that once sat behind him during Question Period to the wolves over unproven “serious allegations.”

The country’s chief statistician quit yesterday over the Harper government’s decision to replace the mandatory long form census with a voluntary survey. Munir Sheikh, the head of Statistics Canada, tendered his resignation publicly, leveling that voluntary statistics would not be enough to make accurate comparisons to earlier census data. “This relates to the question of whether a voluntary survey can become a substitute for a mandatory census. It cannot,” wrote Sheikh in a statement posted on StatsCan’s website. Despite admitting experts at StatsCan don’t agree with the government’s move, Industry Minister Tony Clement stood by his decision to scrap the compulsory census. “What we’re trying to do is make sure data is still available to those who want it,” said Clement, speaking with CTV this afternoon. “But we also take time to consider there are some people in the country who feel that this is an unwarranted intrusion into their private lives.”

The Globe and Mail has identified two arms of the Ontario government that are under criminal investigation. The Ministry of Transportation and the Ontario Realty Corporation are being probed for irregular financial dealings with the private sector. The investigation, being completed by the Ontario Provincial Police, is set to heat up when the OPP hold a news conference to reveal their findings.