Munir Sheikh is a numbers man. As former Chief Statistician of Statistics Canada, Sheikh says for institutions to make good policy decisions, they need good credible evidence. Sheikh has been invited by the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy to speak at a public lecture at the U of R on November 27. Sheikh made national headlines when he quit his job as head of Statistics Canada in 2010 over the federal government’s cancellation of the mandatory long form census. The current government has promised to bring it back.