EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD -- PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S SENATE :
The following extract has been taken from Hansard Records of Canada's Senate:
Debates of the Senate (Hansard)
1st Session, 37th Parliament,
Volume 139, Issue 61
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker
Access to Census Information
Presentation of Petition
Hon. Lorna Milne Honourable senators, I have the honour to present 305 signatures from Canadian Home Children and their descendants from all across Ontario and Saskatchewan, particularly around the Rosetown-Herschel area, who are researching their ancestry. They are petitioning the following:
We the undersigned request that the Canadian Government make available all post 1901 Census returns since they are the only public means available to Canadian Home Children and their descendants, who make up 10 per cent and more of our population, to access the whereabouts of their siblings and relatives from whom they have been separated by this country's tacit acceptance of a policy now recognized by the British Government as being misconceived and the cause of irreparable and irrevocable damage to the child migrants and their descendants.
I have now presented before this Thirty-seventh Parliament petitions with 12,684 signatures. I presented petitions with over 6,000 signatures to the previous Parliament, all calling for immediate action on the release of post-1901 census information.
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