EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD
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PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S HOUSE OF COMMONS
The following extract has been taken from Hansard Records of Canada's House of Commons:
36th Parliament, 2nd Session
EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 34
Friday, December 3, 1999
QUESTION PERION
CENSUS
Mr. Mac Harb (Ottawa Centre, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, many of my constituents have written to
my office requesting that Statistics Canada release census information dating back to 1911.
What is the Minister of Industry planning to do to respond to these requests?
Hon. John Manley (Minister of Industry, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, this is actually a very difficult question. On the one hand there are very legitimate interests on the part of historians and
genealogists in obtaining this information. On the other hand the census data were obtained from
Canadians on the basis of a law that did not anticipate it ever being released to the public.
In order to try to deal with these really conflicting, diametrically opposed interests, I have asked
a panel of experts, chaired by Dr. Richard Van Loon, president of Carleton University, to review the situation to see whether they can give us a recommendation that might balance these two interests and report back to us by the end of May of the coming year.
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