# Source note — Statistics Canada census follow-up / social-media monitoring TikTok

Prepared: 2026-07-27

## Social lead
- TikTok shortlink: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS4Jge8pR/
- Resolved URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@melissa.livepure/video/7665486032225225991
- Creator: @melissa.livepure / Melissa | Livepure
- Caption: “Testimony #fyp #canada”
- Captured transcript: the speaker addresses the Government of Canada “since you monitor social media now,” says a Census Canada employee came into her backyard around 6:30 p.m., and says she did not refuse the census; it was “not a good time.”

## Verification summary
- Statistics Canada publicly confirms it uses social trends monitoring tools such as Meltwater/Hootsuite to monitor public social/traditional media trends relevant to its mandate, including Census communications and misinformation response.
- Statistics Canada also publicly says Census follow-ups can include phone calls and door-to-door visits by enumerators to non-responding households.
- Global News and National Post reported in 2026 that people who had not completed the census could expect phone calls and in-person visits; completion is mandatory and refusal can carry fines.
- The individual backyard/timing claim in the TikTok is a first-person social-media allegation; no independent press/official source confirms that exact backyard encounter in this pass.

## Evidence label
Partly verified: public social monitoring and census follow-up visits are real; the individual alleged backyard encounter is unverified.

## Guardrails
This belongs in PBC Speech Watch because the speaker is responding to official social-media monitoring and a government data-collection visit. It should not be framed as an arrest, charge, judge case or proven misconduct. No judge was named.