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Former Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday that he thinks some questions on the long form census constitute an invasion of privacy.

“Last week a long form census was dropped at my door,” he writes. “It’s 36 pages long and asks a significant number of questions that I don’t feel government has a right to demand under penalty.”

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The long-form census was brought back by the Liberal government after the Conservatives replaced it with a voluntary survey in 2011.

The deadline to fill it out was Tuesday.

On Facebook, Del Mastro expressed concerns that the long-form census no longer asks questions about income because that data is given to Statistics Canada by Revenue Canada.

He writes that he’s concerned that Canadians’ private information being circulated within the federal government. He’s also concerned that information could be accessed by hackers.