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 59
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
The Honourable Rose-Marie Losier-Cools, Speaker pro tempore
Access to Census Information
Presentation of Petition
Hon. Lorna Milne Honourable senators, once again I rise to present 422 signatures from Canadians in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia who are researching their ancestry, as well as signatures from 245 people in the United States and two from Switzerland who are researching their Canadian roots. A total of 669 people are petitioning the following:
Your petitioners call upon Parliament to take whatever steps necessary to retroactively amend the Confidentiality-Privacy clauses of Statistics Acts since 1906, to allow release to the Public after a reasonable period of time, of Post 1901 Census reports starting with the 1906 Census.
These signatures are in addition to the 11,710 that I have presented in this calendar year. The total, so far, is 12,379 signatures to this Thirty-seventh Parliament and over 6,000 names to the Thirty-sixth Parliament, all calling for immediate action on this important matter of Canadian history.
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