EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD -- PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S SENATE :

Debates of the Senate (Hansard)
1st Session, 37th Parliament,
Volume 139, Issue 27
Thursday, April 24, 2001
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker



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Access to Census Information

Presentation of Petition

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, I have the honour to present the signatures of 2,016 Canadians from all 10 provinces, as well as the signatures of 220 people from the United States and signatures of people from the United Kingdom, all of whom are researching their Canadian ancestry. In total, 2,239 people petition as follows:

Your petitioners call upon Parliament to take whatever steps necessary to retroactively amend Confidentiality-Privacy clauses of Statistics Acts since 1906, to allow release to the Public after a reasonable period of time, of Post1901 Census reports starting with the 1906 Census.

Honourable senators, these signatures are in addition to the 3,853 I have presented in this calendar year. I have now presented petitions with 6,092 signatures to the Thirty-seventh Parliament and petitions with over 6,000 signatures to the Thirty-sixth Parliament, all calling for immediate action on this very important matter of Canadian history.

Next week, we will hear from Alberta.